The Confession

Everything you heard about me is true. I did rip out all the pages of the English books. I did throw away all the math textbooks when school was… More

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Everything you heard is true, that I was the one who prank called your house last night, I was also the one who stole the cookie from the cookie… More

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That’s right. It’s true; I am a menace to society. I sit in the shadows and plan your ultimate doom. No, I don’t wear anything but black. I have… More

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Everything that you’ve heard was true, I was a terrorist and what! I was the one who failed school for the love of a boy. I was the one… More

A Time for Everything

That afternoon the sea reached the valley.They stood at the top of the steep mountain face and watched it happen. When they’d got there, tipped off by Javan and… More

Memories of the Decadence

During the Decadence we gave up sexual intercourse, substituting for it various kinds of fetishism. We refined our tastes, narrowing their range and fantastically increasing their complexity. Certain people… More

In Sfax

I no longer know exactly how this strange premonition came about, but I was certain I was going to die on this trip to Tunisia. I’ve often taken the… More

Ten Approximations

East German ChinaLove, like music, is always a true story—in the spring of 1980, half a year before we emigrated to Israel, my grandfather decided to smuggle his collection… More

Life

Randy had run out of cigarettes again, and it was killing him. Not a goddamn one of them was working anymore; and the mother had died in the spring… More

His Mother’s Voice

In high spirits, I waved to the waiter, and called my mother to warn her I'd be late. An urgent case, I lied. The way I sometimes lied, though… More