Eugenia Birger

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“An Old Photograph” by Eugenia Birger

Submitted to Contest #124

A familiar rustling sound filled the otherwise quiet living room. Ines was shifting through the weekend edition, half looking and half looking away. It was a habit in her family, and from a young age her weekends were filled with sounds of paper, occasional gasps, and dirty fingertips that no one bothered to clean. From the rhythm of their reading, Ines could guess if her parents had just had a fight, making these motions rough, fast, eager, as if they were in a competition to reach the end of the newspaper – usually devoted to sports and ob...

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My name is Eugenia, and I am passionate about language, words, and the worlds they create. After finishing my PhD in Linguistics from Tel-Aviv University, I left the academic circles to devote my life to art (different media), movement and creative writing. I speak 4 languages +cat-language, and currently live in Tel-Aviv.