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So what do storytellers do? The ones I like operate more or less like tribal witchdoctors.
Here is a little story for you. Nine thousand six hundred and six years ago, in a…
Contributor:
Amos Oz
Places:
Huldah, Israel
Date:
1972
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Black ants crawl over nicotine-stained fingertips
dipping a mint leaf into the glass.
The alcohol dismantles Abd al-Wahab’s
“Cleopatra.”
Now all is clear
solo violin
solo flute
solo oud
we’re…
Contributor:
Ronny Someck
Places:
Ramat Gan, Israel
Date:
1973
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We will compose a little book that will also serve as an amusement when, in ten years’ time, we want to look back into the past and observe what we lived through. All people have a weakness for…
Contributor:
Emanuele Levi
Places:
Asti, Kingdom of Sardinia
(Asti, Italy)
Date:
1822–1823
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Ilene Segalove
Places:
Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1987
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Judy Gelles
Places:
Melbourne Beach, United States of America
Date:
1996
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There are times Nina wants to strike Andras like a flint and make him burn. And there are times when she is patient and steels herself with more strength than he knows. But mostly Nina is lonely. She…
Contributor:
Allegra Goodman
Places:
Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1998
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In all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture
and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots
I have never seen a post-war Philco
with the automatic eye
nor heard Ravel’s “Bolero”…
Contributor:
Gerald Stern
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982