Dr. Jael Zebulun

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Apr, 2024

Stories (4)

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“Jag in a Box” by Dr. Jael Zebulun

Submitted to Contest #267

Me against this dark black metal box. I’m getting out no matter what I have to do. Clawing at the walls, I injure my claw. They not only trapped me using bait (a live pig who seemed cornered in this same box, but it was an illusion), they drugged me too. Everything went blurry—I was enclosed in this hellish device.  Now I open my eyes, but it’s all black. I strike the walls, hearing the echoes of my own strikes against the metal. I strike again, even harder, despite the throbbing torment in my torn-claw paw each time I do so. I am suffe...

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“Twest ” by Dr. Jael Zebulun

Submitted to Contest #266

3 p.m. July 29, 2017, Houston, Texas. I re-planned that day a thousand times in my mind. I could have left at a different time. I could have gone to the apartment office when I saw their car pull in backwards, could have asked someone to walk me to my Jeep (although it’s common enough to park facing out, but now my hair prickles when I see someone park that way). Could have stayed in the office until they left. Perhaps if I had simply gotten in my Jeep, closed the door and locked it, ignoring the young man yelling, “Hey!”...

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“A Legacy of Questions” by Dr. Jael Zebulun

Submitted to Contest #255

How can I think about romance now? Because, like it or not, I have to. ***Though we have wept and grieved together, my father can’t possibly share my level of loss because he isn’t truly empty. Not that he didn’t love my mother—he did. He had a great passion and love for her. But, in the long run, he was always closer to The One, The One he always talks about, The One who visits from time to time and gives him all those visions. As for Dad, he valued his own life above Mama’s more than a few times and risked her being taken to another man’s ...

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“They Do Run Run” by Dr. Jael Zebulun

Submitted to Contest #253

As you know, the wild woodland creatures have a race every few years to see who will rule the forest. The true rulers, however, rule from the shadows and do not change every few years. The two tree committees control the important decisions (it’s been alleged that sometimes they even help determine who the racers will be—but that’s just hearsay, for everyone knows that’s decided by vote). The tree committees are comprised of eagles, owls, a few hawks, and a leopard. Many feel the leopard should be ousted, though, because she wasn’t born in t...

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Author bio

Dr. Jael Zebulun is an American author and speaker who has been telling stories since she was five years old. After graduating from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa and The Birmingham School of Law, she dabbled in Law and teaching English before returning to her first love, telling stories. Famous quote from Dr. Jael’s Griselda the Toulouse Goose, “The past can never prewrite the future, but the future often rewrites the past.”