Amelia Hans

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“Those Valuable Moments” by Amelia Hans

Submitted to Contest #170

Those Valuable Moments My Father My father was a courageous man; an experienced soldier who instilled fear in the eyes of his enemies. He was awarded three medals of honor, lost an arm shielding his commander from a swarm of shrapnel, and walked across the Sahara Desert with nothing but three bottles of water, fifteen energy bars, and a camel for company. At least, this is what I was told. I never actually met my father, because even the most fearsome soul can be brought down by a single well-aimed bullet to the chest. Grandma I was raise...

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Born in San Diego, California, Amelia Hans was moved to Haifa, Israel as a first grader. She is currently a student of electrical engineering who prefers to write. While in high school, Amelia received numerous awards for both English and Hebrew essays and short fiction from the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel and Tel Aviv University. As the greatest side-hustle ever, she writes cryptocurrency blogs for a tax law firm in San Francisco and designs websites for technological non-profits in Israel. She is working on her first novel and has decided to take the plunge by submitting her short works to prestigious literary journals.