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Gutke found her journal at the bottom of her midwife’s bag and opened it for the first time that year:
Even with my talent for visions, I never would have guessed half of what happened. I suppose that…
Contributor:
Elana Dykewomon
Places:
Oakland, United States of America
Date:
1997
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When an Israeli soldier dies in the line of duty, three officers come to your house and sit in your living room and tell you about it. Imagine how many times that scene has been played out in Israeli…
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Edeet Ravel
Places:
Guelph, Canada
Date:
2003
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Every day at siesta time, when under the scorching heat of the sun the little town of Kenadza was breathing its last, Madame Karsenty would settle down on the sofa in the living room where her son…
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Marlène Amar
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
2005
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Nuska Shkolnik, who had come on a four-day leave, cried those four straight. He’d been a whiner since childhood, and Lyovka never did manage to knock that vice out of him. All anyone had to do was…
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Inna Lesovaya
Places:
Kyiv, Ukraine
Date:
2005
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He was a great entertainer but going insane. The pathologic element could be missed only by those who were laughing too hard to look. Humboldt, that grand erratic handsome person with his wide blond…
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Saul Bellow
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1973
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“All vows and oaths we take, all promises and obligations, we make to God between this Yom Kippur and the next we hereby publicly retract in the event that we should forget them, and hereby declare…
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Hugh Nissenson
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2005
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When I try to think which game I like the most, I usually think of make-believe acting games. Even if they’re without masks, funny clothes, or old shoes with wrinkled tongues. Even if there’s no…
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Uzzi Ben Cnaan
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1979
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Suddenly the front door creaked open.
Grandpa put a finger to his lips and pulled Benny into the shadows.
In walked a man in a tattered coat.
He took the bag of bagels from the Ark.
“O Lord, I was…
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Aubrey Davis
Places:
Toronto, Canada
Date:
2003
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Sally and her friends were in the playhouse in Sally’s backyard. It wasn’t a baby kind of playhouse for dolls. It was a big sturdy house that her father and Douglas had built. It was painted white…
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Judy Blume
Places:
Scarsdale, United States of America
Date:
1977
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Stealing the TigerThe moment she entered the room, she noticed something suspicious out of the corner of her eye. Dror and Koby stood next to her bed and pretended to tie their shoelaces. She knew…
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Nurit Zarchi
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1978