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LUCKY DIE • by David A. Gray

August 28, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The muscular barbarian surveyed the circle of bodies around him, and spat in the gore-soaked sand. “Is that the best you can do?” he roared at the distant figure atop the largest of the tombs that dotted the desert in… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories, Surreal David A. Gray, dice, gaming, luck, soldiers

LOVE AND ROCKETS • by Steven Thomas Howell

February 20, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

INCOMING. INCOMING. INCOMING, said Giant Voice. PFC Tullis made himself small in the low-slung concrete bunker alongside the 105mm howitzer position on the eastern edge of the FOB and prayed Lord Jesus please get me out of this country alive.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories soldiers, Steven Thomas Howell, war

THE LIES BENEATH • by Jeff Hurt

September 11, 2015Every Day Fiction 17 Comments

A ringing phone on a desk in Washington DC prompted a call to Virginia and so on. If given a shape, the calls would have looked like the ace of diamonds turned on its side, the first guy’s phone at… Continue Reading →

Mystery / Suspense, Stories Jeff Hurt, soldiers

THE BEST OF PIES • by Derek McMillan

October 18, 2014Every Day Fiction 32 Comments

It was the best of pies. It was the worst of pies. I have to admit the pastry could not be faulted. I actually enjoyed it. Then as soon as I bit into the pie I found that it was… Continue Reading →

Mystery / Suspense, Stories Derek McMillan, soldiers

THE CALL • by Teresa Davis

June 14, 2014Every Day Fiction 22 Comments

The phone rang at 2:21 a.m. I will never forget it. One doesn’t forget moments like that. I had grown accustomed to your calls coming at odd hours, but we talked just yesterday. Even in my slumber, I knew you… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories dogs, military spouses, soldiers, Teresa Davis

TOMMY, THROUGH A GLASS • by Sarah Crysl Akhtar

May 27, 2013Every Day Fiction 7 Comments

More than forty years, now, and if I knew how to draw I could draw you every detail of the scene. Maybe it was that look he had about him of the young James Coburn, and his perfect timing. Must… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories memories, Sarah Crysl Akhtar, soldiers

ALL WE CAN DO • by Brian J. Hunt

September 22, 2011Every Day Fiction 18 Comments

I finish tightening the final clamp securing Sara to the rack, and step back. The light summer sundress clings lovingly to her figure just like I remembered, but all the holes and dirt smears take away from her attractiveness rather… Continue Reading →

Horror, Romance, Stories Brian J. Hunt, soldiers, zombies

FRANKLY • by Eric Del Carlo

September 22, 2009Every Day Fiction 14 Comments

Half of the hysterical locals were convinced we’d come to do a My Lai on their village; the rest just wanted our rations. Conditions were typically deplorable. Years in the unremitting shit of war will do that. Everybody in the company… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories Eric Del Carlo, reanimation of cadaver parts, soldiers, war

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS • by Tels Merrick

January 2, 2009Every Day Fiction 11 Comments

July 17th Aldershot Barracks Dear Santa, Please don’t give me any presents this year. I don’t want any. All I want is my Daddy. He’s been away since forever, fighting a war thousands of miles away. Please bring him home… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Stories Christmas, soldiers, Tels Merrick

VIETNAM ADVENTURE • by Ed Morawski

November 12, 2007Every Day Fiction 4 Comments

My first experience in Vietnam was to have a clerk tell me he may as well just process me out now as I was going to the Mekong Delta and would be dead in a week. My second was to… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Ed Morawski, rock bands, soldiers, Vietnam

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