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FOG OF WAR • by Morris Alexander

November 11, 2017Every Day Fiction 13 Comments

There is a kind of fog in this city that seems to put everyone on edge. Sometimes too there is a cold hard rain, and not just in the winter months. Between the fog and the rain it can be… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Morris Alexander, war

BEST SHOT • by Shlomi Harif

September 26, 2017Every Day Fiction 21 Comments

Assi pulled the dusty, khaki knapsack between his legs and hunkered behind the low parking garage wall. There was just enough room between two burned out cars for him to kneel and watch the snipers in buildings across the traffic… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories photography, Shlomi Harif, snipers, war

WHEN JOHNNY WAS YOUNG • by Jonathan Wanner

August 8, 2017Every Day Fiction 15 Comments

When Johnny was ten he stole his father’s screwdrivers and hammered them into trees so he could climb them. He took the powder out of his dad’s bullets for the bombs he made to strap onto chickens. He got his… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death, Iraq, Jonathan Wanner, small town, war

THE HUMAN I NEVER WAS • by Jeremy Szal

July 22, 2017Every Day Fiction 36 Comments

I gaze down at the new body they’ve slotted me into. It’s a hulking one this time, all slick black and gunmetal gray with a hint of red. The limbs meticulously designed, the metal folded over each other like overlapping… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories androids, Jeremy Szal, war

LOOK AT THE ANTS • by Dennis Zaslona

March 26, 2017Every Day Fiction 28 Comments

This is it. I turn my back to them, twist my wrists against the rope and give Churchill’s vee. I am to be their last spiteful act before they flee from the guns of my advancing countrymen. A hand’s width… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories, Surreal Dennis Zaslona, war

FESTIVAL MUSIC IN A CIRCLE OF CARAVANS • by Owen Rapine

December 27, 2016Every Day Fiction 10 Comments

Through the hazy watercolor of a child’s memory, those months stand out with clarity even into my ninth decade. They start with the bombs dropping in the village streets. Even a child couldn’t mistake the bone-shaking howl, the blinding flashes… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories music, Owen Rapine, refugees, war

CUT THE BLUE WIRE • by Patrick Mahon

April 7, 2016Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

“Say again, Control. Should I cut the red or the blue wire?” I wait, cutters poised in mid-air above both. Status reports scroll through my eyeline, but I ignore them. Every previous time I’ve dealt with an Improvised Explosive Device… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories androids, mind uploading, Patrick Mahon, war

JUST FIREWORKS • by J. Chris Lawrence

October 15, 2015Every Day Fiction 34 Comments

— in memory of Antoinette Bolden — The Master didn’t play with Rocket as much as the dog preferred, but he knew he was loved. He was a good boy, after all. The Master said so. Every day, when The… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories dogs, J. Chris Lawrence, President, war

SURVIVOR GUILT • by Robert Kibble

August 28, 2015Every Day Fiction 26 Comments

I watched from the wall as they began arriving.  First in ones and twos, then larger groups of desolate soldiers trudging towards the city.  There was no doubting what this meant: the capital had fallen.  The walls which had held… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories betrayal, Robert Kibble, survivors, war

MOVING ONWARDS • by Ian P. Harris

August 14, 2015Every Day Fiction 12 Comments

There’s a hole in my boot. I can feel the mud squelching in around my heel. It’s horrible and cold, making me limp a bit. I can feel it seeping through my sock. How much further to the enemy trenches?… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Ian P. Harris, war, World War I

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