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Submitted to Contest #306
A recipe for memory, resilience, and the taste of unexpected tenderness. Preface:This story was born a few months ago when my husband woke up one morning and said he had dreamed that I wrote a story called "Leukemia and Croquettes." Of course, he didn’t dream up the plot — he left that part to me. As required by the prompt, I reshaped the story into the form of a recipe. Content Note:This story contains themes of cancer and grief, including references to terminal illness, hospital settings, and emotional loss. Yield:Serves one or two. Prepa...
Submitted to Contest #305
Clarification: The story contains references to the Holocaust and World War II. It began as a nameless writing exercise. Later, I researched and loosely based the historical details of the character Wilhelm Krüger on a real-life high-ranking SS officer. All other elements in the story, including the name Guillermo del Valle, are fictional.“I told the greatest lie of all. However, people believed it, and over time, that lie became accepted as truth, like any other story.And what is truth, if not a tale told over and over, until the world stop...
Submitted to Contest #304
I do not tolerate the company of others. Not in the social sense—I don’t hate them; I’m just irreversibly sensitive to them. Just as some people are allergic to cat fur or dust mites, my body reacts with painful sores that no one would care to see. I won’t elaborate; I do my best to keep them hidden.Even before this affliction, I’ve never been much of a social person. I was always a bystander, nodding when others laughed, never entirely sure of the joke. Small talk was never my thing. Instead, I was drawn to the marrow of things—an inclinati...
Submitted to Contest #302
I am a translator. It’s how I make my living—and how I’ve made my way in the world. The second came before the first. Even as a child, my second language offered shelter and escape, helping me voice all I couldn’t say in my mother tongue—from a safe distance, in a borrowed identity.To this day, I live between two languages. I don’t deny my native one — it's the language of the everyday, of existence itself. But there is also the foreign tongue, acquired through great effort, layer by careful layer. It still surprises me. It shows me things a...
Submitted to Contest #301
The neighborhood I grew up in had a backyard—not the kind tucked away behind a single house, but a communal, neglected space that bore no likeness to the polished front. The two coexisted like parallel lines of reality—one visible, the other hidden—and we, the children, moved freely between them, as if slipping from daylight into dusk.Our building stood right at the edge of the asphalt, its façade facing the main road. Across the street stretched the shopping center, where our parents ran errands and traded pleasantries. It also hosted the n...
Submitted to Contest #300
Jaffa, 1866Dr. Thomas Hodgkin was sixty-seven years old when he returned to the Holy Land.This was his second journey—and he knew, with quiet certainty, that it would likely be his last. The damp air of London had grown heavy on his lungs, and he no longer had the strength to pursue all the hopes that had once stirred his heart. Yet when Sir Moses Montefiore, his friend of more than forty years, invited him to accompany him on one final philanthropic mission to Palestine, Hodgkin did not hesitate.Sunlit waves glistened as the steamship ancho...
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