D.F.L.
"I'm broken," I tell Tamar. My breath is ragged. My heart races. "I can't do this anymore."
"You don't have to," she replies.
I jump off my bike and sit down by the side of the trail. Digging my fingernails into my skin, I draw blood to distract from the pain.
Tamar stops her bike and waits.
(Published in HerStry, 2021)
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"You don't have to," she replies.
I jump off my bike and sit down by the side of the trail. Digging my fingernails into my skin, I draw blood to distract from the pain.
Tamar stops her bike and waits.
(Published in HerStry, 2021)
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Quarantine is a State of Mind
"In March 2020, I jumped on one of the last flights from Chicago to Israel. A fraught journey bathed in isopropyl alcohol. The smell wafted through my pores as flight attendants took our temperatures and scribbled down quarantine information. I was sure my sweaty palms and forehead would jack up my temperature, but I passed and was allowed to land at Ben Gurion Airport..."
(Published in the iO Literary Journal, 2021)
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(Published in the iO Literary Journal, 2021)
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The Coat
My story "The Coat" appears in the Turning Points anthology, a product of the Off Campus Writer's Workshop, one of Chicago's oldest and most venerable writers groups. The entire collection of 43 stories has been praised by such luminaries as best-selling authors Scott Turow and Jay Bonansinga, as well as esteemed creative writing educators Fred Shafer, Stuart Dybeck, and Patricia Ann McNair.
Monday Morning, 2 am and Blue Lips
Two poems, "Monday Morning, 2 am" and "Blue Lips"
published in Arc 28: The Kiss
(Journal of The Israel Association of Writers in English, 2021)
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published in Arc 28: The Kiss
(Journal of The Israel Association of Writers in English, 2021)
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