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YOUR BROTHER’S PHONE • by Roberta Kay

May 1, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

You carry his phone in your pocket. Its weight, the closest you have now to holding his hand. Taking it out, you glance through his pictures, read his texts. The phone is still alive. To shut it down would be… Continue Reading →

Stories death, Roberta Kay, siblings, smartphones, suicide

THEY WERE THINKING ABOUT GETTING A CAT • by Dawn Maria Muenchrath

April 29, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The thing you need to understand is none of us liked him from the start. That’s why we weren’t too choked when we first heard about the breakup. It’s not that we didn’t care about my sister. Really, we were… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Literary, Romance, Stories breaking up, cats, Dawn Maria Muenchrath, siblings

MY SISTER • by Mariam Dogar

April 10, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My sister always amazed me with her lack of interest in everything. She had asthma as a kid. Every winter, as I dragged myself out of bed to attend school, she would be allowed to sleep in late. She was… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Mariam Dogar, siblings

WELL OF FIRE • by Jay Tyler

February 6, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The day my brother, Murdoch, stopped talking he looked down a well and saw something he wasn’t supposed to see. The well was on Old Man Mitchell’s property south of town where junk covered the front lawns. Murdoch heard about… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories Jay Tyler, siblings

THE CALIBER OF HOPE • by Michael Pikna

January 18, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I work a mixture of peat and shredded leaves into the hole, then arrange the bulbs pointy end up before blanketing them with a few inches of dirt. Planting crocuses is supposed to keep me from offing myself in the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories child abuse, death of a parent, Michael Pikna, sex workers, siblings

BREAKING BALL • by Michael Snyder

January 9, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

There’s this ball, pink-seamed and spinning fast, its coordinates locked on the northern perimeter of my left eye socket. All the proof I need that God hates me. No surprise, as my earthly father was never that fond of me… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories baseball, death, fathers, grief, siblings, sports

WE LEARN FROM ALL YOUR BEAUTY • by E.S. Dial

December 23, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

I “We get in, get the tree, get out,” says Dad. “Got it?”Football begins in less than two hours; my family is on the clock. II Marc points out that Christmas trees do not grow in Bethlehem. It would be… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Christmas trees, E.S. Dial, family, LGBTQ, siblings, traditions

PROUD FLESH • by Teresa Burns Gunther

November 30, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

In her English class, Gillian was assigned an ode. She wrote to the jagged Zorro scar above her knee from the August night she taught Benny to surf in the rickety trailer camper their father towed. They’d been banished from… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories child abuse, domestic violence, poetry, scars, siblings, teachers, Teresa Burns Gunther

WHAT’S LEFT OF US • by Carys Crossen

October 21, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The flowers glow against the pewter light of a soggy spring. You regard them with distaste. Your feet smack against the pavement, thud, thud, thud, aggravation weighting your steps. You do not want to go. You do not want to… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Carys Crossen, flowers, siblings

TOXIC JUNGLE • by Emily Grandy

October 1, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

We march forward, just the three of us, winding through the endless maze of the toxic jungle. My brother’s boots squelch in the sucking mud, pools of dark liquid earth cast with a purple, oily sheen. Unnatural, and yet completely… Continue Reading →

Horror, Science Fiction, Stories dystopia, Emily Grandy, jungle, siblings

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