Author: Every Writer

Richard Edwards has a BFA in Creative Writing and Journalism from Bowling Green State University and an M.S. in Education from the University of Akron. Managing editor of Drunk Duck, poetry editor for Prairie Margins, reporter for Miscellany, Akron Journal, Lorain Journal, and The BG News. He has also worked as a professional writer and editor in the medical publishing industry for several years. For the last 15 years Richard has also taught literature and writing at the secondary and post-secondary levels. He works much of the time with at-risk students.

Time Window by Doug Dawson

Posted on April 28, 2023November 26, 2023 by Every Writer

“United Space-Service ship USS-4271 calling … Mayday … Mayday … This is Space-Patrol astronaut John Plantain … we are in low orbit around IO, we have meteorite damage, Auto-Nav’s not working and we have less than forty minutes before our low orbit causes Auto-Ignite to fire

Catching Up 2143

Posted on April 23, 2023November 26, 2023 by Every Writer

I hope you don’t mind me calling you that, but it’s how we referred to you all these years. We assumed you were dead; lost in the war with so many others. Your letter was full of news, and we hunger for more. Especially about your “whole new family”

Don’t Look For Us by Christine LaChance

Posted on March 31, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

“Is it working? This is Lieutenant Cypher of the Echo-114 squadron. If you’re hearing this transmission, it means we’re lost. I’m the only one left. More specifically, I don’t know where all the others have gone.

Alien bloom 982

Posted on March 24, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

One evening in late October, I thrashed my old rusty scythe at my overgrown lawn, whilst practising the odd golf swing. That’s when the flying saucer arrived. It hovered, casting shadows. Startled, I struck my foot, saved only by the scythes bluntness.

The Soldier Who Loved Dogs

Posted on March 8, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

“I am not a warring man.” Igor watched the old man lead a German Shepherd through the rubble which Berlin had become.

Encounter With a Talking Head by VM Landi

Posted on February 23, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Encounter With a Talking Head by VM Landi Every year during the summer my son and his wife, their two

Swallowed by Angela Carlton

Posted on February 15, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

I’ve been caught up in your lies. I’m not the spider but the bug who waits to get swallowed in your web, those delicate strands. Yes, I’m wrapped inside where everything tends to hang.

Switching Gears by LB Sedlacek

Posted on February 4, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Kim stared at her computer. She was looking at rough draft number she didn’t know what. She’d lost count, there had been so many changes. Her characters were no longer her characters. Her publisher wanted them all to be despicable.

Them By Meg Pokrass

Posted on January 18, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

You would hate it if you knew how many times I apply lipstick now that you’re gone. I’m putting it on, like, every five minutes to get through the next fifteen, though I know they use fish scales to make it

Miracle Stain Remover

Posted on January 14, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Long-suffering Gwendolyn O’Malley felt mid-sentence, the tiredness that comes with uttering pointless words.

The Closet by Doug Dawson

Posted on January 10, 2023December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

He listened to the sound of rain on the roof. It sounded to him like crackling, and he imagined a raging fire above his head. He couldn’t catch fire himself because he was soaked in perspiration. He’d run until he was out of breath and ended up where he thought they wouldn’t be looking for him

Taking Submissions on our Main pages

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Every Writer

We are holding off on publishing on our EWR:Short Stories site for awhile, but through the Holidays you can interact and submit your work to our main page at everywriter.net We are also running many contests and have calls for submissions

Ant Death by Lorna Wood

Posted on October 26, 2020December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Useful. Keeping busy. Reading the trails, bringing home food.

Warm day, scurrying along, pavement warm, sun bright, right overhead.

“Hey guys, watch this.”

“God, he looks so big through that thing.”

The Feral Nature of Werewolves, A History

Posted on October 22, 2020December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

Werewolves never existed. Humans created them from lore used to explain their loss of livestock at night. Humans rejected the notation that mere feral wolves could so quietly and so effectively take down and devour whole cattle in the dead of night without being detected

My darkest fear! by Wendy Montoya

Posted on October 16, 2020December 9, 2023 by Every Writer

I sat up gasping for air; my throat felt tight again. I glanced at the clock; although I already knew It was 3:30 am. The same time I have been waking up for the past week!