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Short Story

Sugar High

He had never celebrated Halloween before. That was, of course, understandable since he had been created on a damp Tuesday in Prague in 1601. He’d spent most of the intervening centuries in cellars. His creator had consulted two primary texts in forming him: Yarmolinsky’s History of the Ashkenazy and Rabbi Eleazar’s Commentary on the Sefer […]

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Flash Fiction

Do Not Resuscitate

It was nine o’clock on Halloween night and the rain had stopped. It had been a cold, needling rain, the kind that turned the streets black and glossy and made every jack-o’-lantern look as though it were floating in a puddle. Dorothy Reynolds was on her way home from a gathering at a friend’s house […]