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CLAIR DE LUNE • by Phillip Scott Mandel

November 1, 2022Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Every day is a learning opportunity: what to do, on Yom Kippur in Chicago? Everyone else is still in New York; “But you don’t ever go to temple anyway,” I tell myself. You are a cultural. A non-practicing, non-religious, barely-believing.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories being Jewish, Chicago, Phillip Scott Mandel, Yom Kippur

FOR A GOOD YEAR • by Ari Stemple

October 26, 2021Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“You didn’t have to come with me, Sam. I’m okay.” Sam handed me the challah I’d made the day before, wrapped in a cloth. He’d always scared me a little bit, tall and athletic and proud. He looked like the… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories Ari Stemple, being Catholic, being Jewish, death of a parent, fathers, LGBTQ, Rosh Hashanah

ROMANCING THE BIRD • by Zoë Däe

November 26, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Like I’m supposed to, I show up on the High Holidays and go to grad school and graciously accepted the 18th-birthday nose job from my dad who cares way more than I do that I be available and palatable for… Continue Reading →

Humour / Satire, Literary, Stories American Thanksgiving, being Jewish, family, Zoë Däe

TRUMPET • by William Hawkins

September 18, 2020Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Your lips on a ram’s horn. A new year. You explained religion as a binary, 0s and 1s. Thou shalt. Thou shalt not. At an early age, or so you told me, you decided your upbringing, centered as it was… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories being Jewish, breaking up, Rosh Hashanah, William Hawkins

A LONELY JEW AT CHRISTMAS • by Isabella David

December 5, 2013Every Day Fiction 14 Comments

More than even gifts, Abby Crosby loved wrapped-up boxes. Loved the anticipation. It was the same with Christmas Day. Having grown up in a large city, she enjoyed the small-town feeling in the air on the days leading up to… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories being Jewish, breaking up, Christmas, homelessness, Isabella David, knitting
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