adminThe Origin Story of Death – Chapter 7 After my daughter died, people asked whether I had received any signs from her. I initially was […]
Gina Roitman – ‘Sisterhood’
For the past few years, I have been leading a memoir workshop via Zoom for 12 daughters of Holocaust survivors in the DC area […]
Sarah Terez Rosenblum – ‘Figures of Speech’
“I’m afraid to wear this,” I told my fiancé. We were emptying Christmas stockings, and Matt had given me a delicate Jewish star. “That’s fucked […]
Maxim D. Shrayer – Three Poems
Last Will and Testament Thomas Mann has returned to the city of Lübeck. The municipal elders have gathered to welcome him home. He‘s old. […]
Carol Dorf – Four Poems
On A Crowded Bus after Ryzard Krynicki A bus from El Paso is nothing like a train from Friedrichstraße station with its memorial to the children […]
Claire L. Frankel – ‘Reapers’
The seasons roll by first flowers and scent then tiny apples – Bigger and bigger – 25 years in the blink of an eye. […]
Julie Brandon – ‘A Covenant Remembered’
Am I ready to go Somehow bondage seems easier than following a man I’ve never met for a God I don’t remember Multitudes pull […]
Mark Tulin – ‘Suitcases of Sorrow’
People were forced to leave their homes with hastily packed bags, suitcases of memories, trunks of sorrows, old and broken, some with nameplates, but […]
Ivan de Monbrison – ‘Two Poems about Childhood’
1. so little depth in this skull crater of bones a hole hiding in it like inside a hollow tooth strange cavity it could […]
E.P. Lande – “Chagall in Sils Maria”
“You have to understand,” Irmgard explained to Jane and me the evening before our departure, “spending time like this with Chagall is a privilege. […]