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THE OLD ROUTINE • by Jodie Keenan

October 28, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

You’re securing the doors and windows while I field-strip the Winchester. Live long enough after the world ends and survival becomes a tired old routine. You sleep while I keep watch, I vomit as quietly as I can while you… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories abortion, Jodie Keenan, relationship problems, unwanted pregnancy, zombies

OPTIONS • by Andrée Gendron

August 15, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Jane, my best friend ever since junior high, cornered me after work to ask what was going on. She hadn’t seen nor heard from me in weeks. She and others must have left me a million text messages. I never… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Andrée Gendron, friendship, unwanted pregnancy

BAGGY JUMPERS • by Geraldine McCarthy

January 10, 2018Every Day Fiction 16 Comments

If I buy the jumpers baggy, my mother mightn’t notice. I rifle through the knitwear in Penney’s. Saturday after lunch and it’s manic — young ones jostling, women aiming buggies like weapons. Mam let me come to the city, but… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Geraldine McCarthy, teenagers, unwanted pregnancy

THE SHARING SERIES • by Janet Savage

January 12, 2016Every Day Fiction 17 Comments

Back when I was in college, if you were lucky you had an electric typewriter and a private room. If you were really lucky, now and then, you had someone to screw in that private room. I needed the typewriter.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories college / university students, Janet Savage, unwanted pregnancy

SENSES • by Desiree Wilkins

September 25, 2015Every Day Fiction 30 Comments

She’d rather it was a tumor. Rachel drove her hands deep into the cool meat. When she squeezed her hands tight, she felt the soft thickness work through and surround her fingers. She set one hand free and cracked an… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories academia, Desiree Wilkins, infidelity, menopause, unwanted pregnancy

STÖBERHUND • by Sarah Crysl Akhtar

November 13, 2013Every Day Fiction 21 Comments

He seized me up like a carrion bird and like a dead thing I let him.  Then I came alive again. “Oh no,” Reinhardt purred — defaming the language of cats — “oh no, my girl. Under Heaven you swore… Continue Reading →

Stories royalty, Sarah Crysl Akhtar, unwanted pregnancy

EXIT • by JB Starre

March 5, 2013Every Day Fiction 13 Comments

Alex stood on the edge of a rooftop fifteen stories high, staring at an exit sign that led to nowhere. His unlit cigarette was perched precariously between his lips, momentarily forgotten. He walked around the exit sign, looking at it… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories cigarettes, JB Starre, unwanted pregnancy

SEVENTEEN • by Virgie Townsend

January 5, 2011Every Day Fiction 37 Comments

Your mother called me after you went missing, asking if I knew anything they should know. There aren’t a lot of places to hide in Victorsville, and she was worried because no one had seen you since the night before.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death, friendship, unwanted pregnancy, Virgie Townsend

DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON • by Walter Giersbach

July 4, 2009Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

Jonas hunched deeper in the lawn chair with the rotting webbing and watched the puddle under his lemonade widen until it was the size of his hand. The condensation reminded him of the sweat under his armpits and the wet hair… Continue Reading →

Stories siblings, teenagers, unwanted pregnancy, Walt Giersbach

UPON THE DOORSTEPS • by K.C. Ball

January 22, 2009Every Day Fiction 33 Comments

The January sky, with its waning moon, was a glistening onyx dome, hard polished and pin-pricked with the light of faraway suns. The young woman sat within shadow upon the wide concrete steps of the church; clutching a woolen blanket… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal cigarettes, K.C. Ball, unwanted pregnancy

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