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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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