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AFTER THE CHROMATIC EYE • by Mathew L Reyes

December 18, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

We held our breaths as we stood in the field. A moment of agonizing silence, and then: The explosion ripped through slate skies. The Marh’uil megalith shuddered. Above, its master engine, the Chromatic Eye, teetered. The grey and grim world… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories aliens, freedom, Mathew L Reyes, war

MEMORIES OF ARCHIE • by Martin Hadfield

December 14, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

On the hundredth anniversary of the end of the war, the local newspaper read “Statue Unveiled of Local War Hero Archie Sutherland”. At the unveiling ceremony a draped cloth was lowered to reveal a tall, handsome soldier standing tall atop… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories fathers, Martin Hadfield, statues, war, World War I

THE HOLE • by Tom Javoroski

November 6, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Four ranks wide, thirty deep. He could feel the fear of every one of them. Feel it crawling up his back, pressing through the seams of his armor, working through every gasket and seal. It wouldn’t last long, a mayfly… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories soldiers, technology, teleportation, Tom Javoroski, war

FIGHTING FOR THE MOMENT • by Cameron Hunter

October 27, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

We lived in blinks, a few seconds here or there, never more than a minute. You just pop back into existence, like you’d only been daydreaming. You’re always welcomed by a chemical odor reminiscent of burnt plastic or fat liquefied… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories Cameron Hunter, experimental technology, space, teleportation, war

NAGASAKI • by Karen Peacock

April 30, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

…and it should have been Kokura, but it was overcast, though it was cloudy here, too, but not cloudy enough, so by the time I returned home from business, it was all gone, everything, and like so many others, I… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Japan, Karen Peacock, memories, nuclear weapons, war, World War II

HOME • by Tanner Cremeans

February 20, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

April 30th, 1972 I came home. It wasn’t the warm welcome that I had expected. What I expected was the abundance of romance and cheering that my father had told me about after he returned home from Germany at the… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Tanner Cremeans, veterans, Vietnam War, war

ANGELS OF MERCY • by L. Mahayla Smith

February 3, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

My helicopter crashed into blackness somewhere south of the Imjin River. My whole life didn’t pass before my eyes. Just the scene most worth remembering: Giselle and me strolling through Paris six years ago, November 1945. She wore a red… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories, Surreal Korean War, L. Mahayla Smith, war

THE GOODIES ALWAYS WIN • by Brecht De Poortere

January 12, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

That evening, my parents had a fight. It had been a particularly nasty fight about things I did not understand. We were having supper when the shouting began. Then Mom ran off in tears and Dad finished eating with us… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories Brecht De Poortere, Rwandan Civil War, Rwandan genocide, war

THE DESERTER • by Alec Binnie

May 13, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Second Lieutenant Edwin Elston led the remaining boys in his platoon to a small clearing within twenty yards of a concrete bunker along the northern edge of the Siegfried line. Elston didn’t need to order them to take any cover… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Alec Binnie, war, World War II

MARKED FOR DEATH • by Chris Cooper

April 10, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Harris knew his life was over as soon I tapped him on the shoulder. “I’ve got something to say to you.” “Why me? Why now? I’ve written all my letters, sent all my mail, said all my prayers.” “I don’t… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories Chris Cooper, war

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