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Yasha’s Eternity Russia
Yasha Hein woke up while it was still dark – long before the alarm clock rang – because of a strange quietness that was filling him up from within. During the evening of the previous day...
Yasha’s Eternity
Anna Starobinets
17 min
Darab on the River Israel
When Homai took the throne as the queen, She was kind and victorious – supreme! But when she had a son, the true heir to the crown, He was sent on the river, unseen.   But...
Darab on the River
Thamar E. Gindin
8 min
The Gift Israel
There are those who invent lies, and there are those who believe them.   In an ideal world Jerry would spread his wings and fly away from there. For as long as he can remember himself,...
The Gift
Iftach Alony
6 min
I Only Blast Under Written Orders Germany
Sergeant Guy Bohn was a lawyer in civilian life. In the winter of 1939 he had been transferred from active front line service as a soldier of France near the Luxembourg border because of a serious...
I Only Blast Under Written Orders
Alexander Kluge
5 min
Benjamin and the Walker Venezuela
You walk, you walk and you forget: that’s what she always says. Well, not in those exact words. It’s usually a more specific complaint: you didn’t call Pacheco, you didn’t check the Supercable contract, you didn’t...
Benjamin and the Walker
Krina Ber
11 min
Upturned Face USA
“What will we do now?” said the adjutant, troubled and excited.   “Bury him,” said Timothy Lean. The two officers looked down close to their toes where lay the body of their comrade. The face was...
Upturned Face
Stephen Crane
5 min
Impoverished Russia
  I When the waste and dreariness of her life become too much for Zivia, the younger and more embittered of the two unmarried Pozis sisters, she stops eating and washing. Wearing only her shift and...
Impoverished
David Bergelson
11 min
The Voice Argentina
The autumn felt more like summer than the summer had. I was wearing my blue silk dress, and I had the little Pekinese they’d given me for my birthday when I arrived at my boyfriend’s house....
The Voice
Silvina Ocampo
2 min
The Capture of Father Time USA
Jim was the son of a cowboy, and lived on the broad plains of Arizona. His father had trained him to lasso a bronco or a young bull with perfect accuracy, and had Jim possessed the...
The Capture of Father Time
L. Frank Baum
11 min
Sons Mexico
I met Olegario and his son William in the town cantina. I’d been on the run for weeks, travelling drunkenly from one place to another. I slept in the car and ate when I was hungry....
Sons
José Miguel Tomasena
9 min
The Daughters of the Late Colonel New Zealand
The week after was one off the busiest weeks of their lives. Even when they went to bed it was only their bodies that lay down and rested; their minds went on, thinking things out, talking...
The Daughters of the Late Colonel
Katherine Mansfield
28 min
The Lady with the Dog Russia
It was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home...
The Lady with the Dog
Anton Chekhov
26 min
The Granddad and the Dandelion Israel
It is possible that you have lots of friends, or maybe you have only a friend or two. Your friends could be children, or they could be adults, or maybe your friends are dogs or cats...
The Granddad and the Dandelion
Yannets Levi
2 min
Eveline Ireland
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The...
Eveline
James Joyce
7 min
Memories from Haifa Israel
One day, when I was nine or ten years old, my uncle sent me alone from my father’s clothing shop to the post office in downtown Haifa. I’m not sure whether it was my idea or...
Memories from Haifa
Mati Shemoelof
4 min
Grandmother and the Ghosts Poland
My grandmother lived in Podlasie. The house wasn’t in the village itself. The neighborhood was known as “the colony”—scattered farms separated by stands of aspen and avenues of age-old, slender poplars. The cottage stood amid an...
Grandmother and the Ghosts
Andrzej Stasiuk
6 min
Isis – The Story of The Goddess of Magic and Sorcery in Egyptian Mythology Israel
The Goddess Isis was almost as strong as her grandfather the Sun God, the most powerful of all the gods in the universe. His name was Ra, but he had a few other names as well....
Isis – The Story of The Goddess of Magic and Sorcery in Egyptian Mythology
Shoham Smith
10 min
A Thousand Shekels A Story Israel
We Weren’t actually at starvation’s door, although even that depends on how you look at it – the house was in ruins, windows missing, the living-room armchair shot to pieces, a crack in the wall, the...
A Thousand Shekels A Story
Orly Castel-Bloom
5 min
Fragment of a Novel UK
“In the year 17__, having for some time determined on a journey through countries not hitherto much frequented by travellers, I set out, accompanied by a friend, whom I shall designate by the name of Augustus...
Fragment of a Novel
Lord Byron
7 min
Three Men in America Israel
1. AZIZ   Our small room in Motel 6 smells like depressing sex that someone tried to scrub off with lots bleach. Gershon and I sit on the bed and start scribbling calculations on a napkin....
Three Men in America
Julia Fermentto
30 min
The Last Summer of Our Patriarch USA
On the third day of vacation, we woke in our rental cabins by the ocean to find half our flip‐flops were gone. One of the baby’s potato‐sized sandals was missing as well. By the door, out...
The Last Summer of Our Patriarch
Idra Novey
10 min
The Man Who Moved the Western Wall Israel
David Lugasi, I think, never knew how much he really loved the Western Wall until he saw it completely dismantled, stone by stone by stone, and piled onto the three trucks of his hauling and renovations...
The Man Who Moved the Western Wall
Uzi Weil
15 min
See You at the Pole Israel
“Sir, I have something for you.”   Mr. Zoom stopped walking and looked around. Cars whizzed by, people strode past, but a deliveryman reached out and handed Mr. Zoom a package. “Why me?” said Mr. Zoom...
See You at the Pole
Nurit Zarchi
4 min
A Story About the Little Rabbits USA
“FINE um whar you will en w’en you may,” remarked Uncle Remus with emphasis, “good chilluns allers gits tuck keer on. Dar wuz Brer Rabbit’s chilluns; dey minded der daddy en mammy fum day’s een’ ter day’s...
A Story About the Little Rabbits
Joel Chandler Harris
3 min
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