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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
The Tell-Tale Heart USA
True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I...
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
8 min
Down the Path Colombia
Almost, almost there, but not quite. Something woke me up. A noise. I’m dripping wet, but I didn’t get there. I’m still half asleep. Nearly, but not quite. The wind is blowing through the coffee groves;...
Down the Path
Juan Cárdenas
9 min
Breasts Israel
I remember when my breasts developed. I would hold them in my hands, squeeze them in front of the mirror, examining them from every angle. I inspected the color of the nipple, checked for the first...
Breasts
Yoav Katz
27 min
El Verdugo France
To Martinez de la Rosa.   The clock of the little town of Menda had just struck midnight. At that moment a young French officer, leaning on the parapet of a long terrace which bordered the...
El Verdugo
Honoré de Balzac
11 min
Silver Pistols Venezuela
How could Edgardo have hunted an animal if he didn’t even know how to love, much less kill. He’d become a useless idler, sitting all day in front of the television set or on the computer...
Silver Pistols
Liliana Lara
10 min
Interview With an Assassin Netherlands
The low sun, the brass bands, the President’s face blazing with self-confidence. Everyone over thirty can still bring the images to mind. The President, who was on an official visit to Afrasia, a turbulent and largely...
Interview With an Assassin
Daan Heerma van Voss
9 min
Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear USA
“ wuz one season” said Uncle Remus, pulling thoughtfully at his whiskers, “w’en Brer Fox say to hisse’f dat he speck he better whirl in en plant a goober-patch, en in dem days, mon, hit wuz tech...
Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear
Joel Chandler Harris
3 min
After Arbor Day Israel
At the beginning of winter my father fell ill and took to his bed. He lay in bed for a long time with his bedroom door closed, and we would walk around the house on tiptoe...
After Arbor Day
Ruth Almog
5 min
It Would Be Better If Some Continents Had Never Been Discovered. Europe, For Instance, Has Never Been Anything But Trouble. Germany
There often used to be two of us. Three of us. Four, five, or six. I had brothers, sisters, a tarantula. Parents, yes, them too. Plus there was my Uncle Nikolai and the guy from the...
It Would Be Better If Some Continents Had Never Been Discovered. Europe, For Instance, Has Never Been Anything But Trouble.
Michel Decar
8 min
Buy Two Get One Free Israel
In my other life I lived in a suburb of Ohio or Michigan with Paul-Marc, my husband, and the child. The houses were planted on manicured lawns that stretched as far as the eye could see,...
Buy Two Get One Free
Tal Nitzán
4 min
Bohemia Russia
I – How to Survive with the Aid of Literature. Astride a Play to Tiflis.   If someone asked me what I deserve, I would say in all honesty before God that I deserve hard labor....
Bohemia
Mikhail Bulgakov
9 min
The Eternal Israeli Israel
Dayton Ohio, 2006   The plane lands at the airport. It’s a connecting flight with a stopover in Zurich, and the final destination is The Dayton-Wright Brothers International Airport. A total flight time of 15 hours,...
The Eternal Israeli
Nissan Shor
26 min
August Poland
In July, my father left to take the waters; he left me with my mother and older brother at the mercy of the summer days, white from the heat and stunning. Stupefied by the light, we...
August
Bruno Schulz
10 min
There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard UK
This, you know, is the beginning of the story about sprites and goblins which Mamilius, the best child in Shakespeare, was telling to his mother the queen, and the court ladies, when the king came in...
There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
M.R. James
5 min
Molly and the Red Hat USA
Molly loved her red hat. It was full and round and bright. It was glorious and unadorned. That hat knew more than it was saying. It could have been a ladybug, it could have been a...
Molly and the Red Hat
Benjamin Rosenbaum
13 min
My Istanbul Germany|Turkey
A Turkish philosopher from Istanbul once visited me in Berlin. He was only there for a few days. He looked at the street and said quietly, ‘I don’t think I could live here.’   Not the...
My Istanbul
Emine Sevgi Özdamar
10 min
Asylum UK
Prison more like, said Madeleine.   Come now, said Mr Kramer. If I run away they bring me back, said Madeleine. Yes but, said Mr Kramer.   Mr Kramer often said, Yes but to Madeleine. Something...
Asylum
David Constantine
12 min
Diary of a Newspaper Reader Argentina
Thursday, July 6   I’m sitting down to write because I finally have something to tell you. The boy from the newsstand didn’t bring me the paper today. I went to complain. On the way there...
Diary of a Newspaper Reader
Eduardo Berti
11 min
The Waldstein Sonata Germany
Franz Liszt died on the 31st of July in the year 1886; he could not recall the finer details. Now, however, he found himself, in full possession of his senses and mental faculties, walking purposefully along a...
The Waldstein Sonata
Hartmut Lange
16 min
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