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My mother clings to my father and next to him with his towering height, she seems so much smaller as she tries not to cry.

25m read Translated from Italian by Anna Denzel

Tami called in the late afternoon and asked if she could come over, so we could spend the missile attack together.

17m read Translated from Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan

“Dos iz a tir,” says Vladimir, pointing toward the door of the classroom. “Dos iz a tir,” everyone repeats after him and points toward the door.

32m read Translated from Hebrew by Peretz A. Rodman

Nathan had often promised to take her to the seaside, but that was before the wedding and the children.

16m read Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Famke did not look at Luuk in church. She did not like the way his eyes rested on her as she moved quickly to an open pew.

30m read

Yesterday was Shabbos. I went over to Joel’s apartment. I always go over to Joel’s apartment on Shabbos.

9m read

We all knew someone who had set up a parent in the Sunset Bay Towers, where the residents ranged in age from the fit-and-fabulous fifties...

15m read

Rosa looked at herself in the mirror and didn’t recognize the woman she saw staring back at her. When had she last gotten so farpitzed?

32m read

Itamar left the house at 3:55 a.m., five minutes before the time he had scheduled the Uber to arrive. He hated being late.

27m read

Jakub Goldman had proposed to Flora about a week after they met...

19m read Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

By mid-March, three months after my mom left, she hadn’t called or sent a letter, and there was no way she was coming back.

21m read

The dead eagle was a problem. Before he called the sheriff’s office, a two-desk operation in our upstate New York town...

24m read

On her way home, Elena Bruskina saw twelve women she’d presumed were dead reappear. The full dozen. Her breath hitched.

19m read

Benjamin Gold was sitting on the bed in a damp shirt staring at nothing when Susannah, his wife, put her head around the door.

12m read

It all started with her deflowering on Masada. Yes, that Masada. Charlotte was sixteen and visiting Israel with her family...

12m read