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Month: December 2024

poetry

Wendy Dickstein – Three Poems

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 admin 4 mins read

Looking For Forests After the vet put Simba down he lent you a shovel dumped the limp body into your arms and told you to […]

poetry

Paul Rabinowitz – Three Poems

December 23, 2024January 5, 2025 admin 4 mins read

The Melon   like inhaling a part of memory I slice into the net-like rind of a perfect melon   two halves separate and fall […]

Uncategorized

Alex Gordon – ‘True Story’

December 16, 2024December 17, 2024 admin 12 mins read

  (A Jewish Interpretation of Charles Perrault’s Puss in Boots)       Bauschan is my daughter’s dog. I’ve been friends with him for six years now. He is […]

fiction, translation

Shulim Vogelmann – Two Extracts from While the City Burned (Mentre la città bruciava), translated by Anna Denzel

December 9, 2024December 11, 2024 admin 16 mins read

  Extract 1 (pp. 48-49) Jerusalem, 1997 A young woman dressed up as Charlie Chaplin dances, children all around her. There’s a cowboy, a superman, […]

fiction

Eli Ehrenpreis – ‘Interruptions’

December 2, 2024December 2, 2024 admin 5 mins read

  I have a goal to improve myself. The meeting was my best chance to change my life. Deciding on something this important and carrying […]