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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

SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT • by John Weagly

May 25, 2020Every Day Fiction 1 Comment

On the tour boat Funliner, eighty-seven children screamed. “I wish they wouldn’t do that,” Captain Charles said. “The screams echo under the bridges,” Jimmy, the deckhand, answered. “They like the echo.” “It’s annoying. It puts me on edge.” “Plus, they… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Humour / Satire, Stories boats, Chicago, dating, dinosaurs, John Weagly, school field trips
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