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World War II

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

THE CAPTAIN • by Andrei Șișman

April 16, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

The man who was shot in the head goes to church on Sunday mornings. His name is George Marcovici, but to his friends and family, he is the captain. George is a neighborhood legend in Antim, Bucharest, with his soft… Continue Reading →

Historical, Literary, Stories Andrei Șișman, Romania, World War II

THE ENGLISH-ONLY RULE • by Ted Lietz

July 14, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Hania grew up in a southwest Detroit neighborhood where most people understood English well enough to follow radio broadcasts of Joe Louis fights and fireside chats. But they were far more comfortable conversing in Polish. It was the language of… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories family, language, perinatal loss, pregnancy, Ted Lietz, World War II

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

BEAN SÍ • by Simon Kewin

December 2, 2017Every Day Fiction 9 Comments

The mournful wailing froze Conn O’Neill’s blood, as it always did. People said the sound the stuka dive-bombers made came from sirens the Germans fitted to their planes. Well, maybe. But Conn, fighting for Allied forces in northern France, knew… Continue Reading →

Historical, Horror, Stories banshees, Simon Kewin, war, World War II

THE SCARE • by Kim Mary Trotto

October 17, 2017Every Day Fiction 13 Comments

The bombers were coming again, the sirens screaming. Rita pulled away from the crowd exiting the nightclub and started toward the coat check station. She could bear the cold but not what would happen if she didn’t make it back… Continue Reading →

Historical, Mystery / Suspense, Stories Kim Mary Trotto, World War II

PEACE FOR OUR TIMES • by Chris Ovenden

June 24, 2015Every Day Fiction 56 Comments

“One hundred days,” I say as the prime minister leafs through the contract I’d given him. He scans the pages through a pair of black rimmed spectacles held in front of his nose with a chubby white fist. He looked… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Chris Ovenden, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, World War II

DADS • by Walter Lawn

August 24, 2014Every Day Fiction 30 Comments

“Hey, I think we broke something,” he said, shaking me awake. Ann’s dad always looks like the snapshot she’d had of him, taken on the Burma Road: bare-chested, center-parted hair, broad smile, burly. The clock said 2:45. Ann’s side of… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal 9/11, ghosts, Walter Lawn, war, World War II

THE D-DAY DIORAMA • by Paul A. Freeman

June 6, 2013Every Day Fiction 22 Comments

Elliot Kane lived in a harmless fantasy world — or so he thought. “Guten morgen!” he said to his wife, leaping out of bed the day before the anniversary of D-Day. “Good morning,” Mrs Kane replied in English. She refused… Continue Reading →

Stories, Surreal D-Day, Paul A. Freeman, World War II

BURIAL OF THE BELLS • by Sarah Hilary

September 2, 2009Every Day Fiction 52 Comments

On hearing of the Japanese invasion at Simanggang in 1941, and remembering the scrabble for metal in the last war, Mathie hid every tool he owned behind panels in the roof of his home. This way he calculated he’d have… Continue Reading →

Historical, Stories Malaysia, missionaries, prisoners of war, Sarah Hilary, war, World War II
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