Fiction
Fiction
Late
“There are no enemies. There’s no one left.”
Omar Khalifah April 16, 2026
Fiction
Siamo Rovinati
“This is all there is. Ugliness, ugliness.”
Hannah Lillith Assadi March 10, 2026
Fiction
My Lover, the Rabbi
“I, without a prehistory, became his forbidden, verklempt possession.”
Wayne Koestenbaum March 3, 2026
Fiction
The Event
“Something has taken place that we cannot speak of or know or even fully perceive, yet the fact of which sits before us.”
Henry Bean October 31, 2025
Fiction
Two Empty Rooms
“A real live Jewish woman! She used to live here.”
Edith Bruck July 16, 2025
Fiction
What You Deserve
“Be careful what you wish for, is the moral of the story, except when the moral is something more like: unless, what if, if only.”
Lyta Gold June 17, 2025
Fiction
On the Squeezing
The Parable of the Lemons
Tawfiq Da’adli March 20, 2025
Fiction
Rochelle
“Our friendship was the ideology of my life.”
Lily Meyer December 19, 2024
Fiction
DEATH TO DICTATORS
“They’re crawling all over South Florida, the worst people on Earth, enjoying the sun and the sea, unkillable.”
Ryan Alan Boyle August 12, 2024
Fiction
Excerpt from Manhattan
“Who cared about the rest of the world? I had reading for all time.”
Hélène Cixous September 28, 2023
Fiction
The Theologian of the Abyss
“He claimed that God did not exist, and if He did exist, must be an idiot.”
Daniel Guebel July 18, 2023
Fiction
A Fatal Disease
“The thought that his end was imminent always gave him a sense of release and new vitality.”
Susan Taubes April 17, 2023
Fiction
Nectarines
“When we asked my grandfather what had happened, he spat out that the person we’d just met was not Andrea Perlitzer. Not his Andrea Perlitzer.”
Joseph Eichner November 21, 2022
Fiction
An Artist’s Revenge
“Scowling, he grumbled to himself: It’s no wonder the rich view artists as their pawns, and art as their plaything . . . No one makes real art anymore!”
Wolf Wieviorka June 15, 2022
Fiction
Baruch Hashem
I’m white trash. Jew trash. Immigrant trash. Girl-boy trash. I’m a Casanova without a cause.
Yelena Moskovich April 5, 2022
Fiction
The Passenger
“It’s Jewish blood that’s bringing the German people together.”
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz December 9, 2021
Fiction
Sick Day
“Being young with a broken heart, it’s not the same as being old with a broken heart.”
Dea Hadar July 12, 2021
Fiction
THANX MARTIN GR8!1
“I’m not sure how to put this.” Neilson folded his arms over his chest. “But were you purposefully farting into the meditation cushion?”
Lee Conell December 24, 2020
Fiction
In a Crowded Place
“Strangers warmed each other, breathing down each other’s necks and in each other’s faces.”
Jonah Rosenfeld May 12, 2020
Fiction
A Wedding in the Cemetery
“The entire Jewish community, over ten thousand people, were imprisoned in their homes.”
Joseph Opatoshu May 6, 2020
Fiction
An Excerpt from Rejwach
“What it is about you, you Jews, that whatever anyone says about you, it’s never a neutral subject?”
Mikołaj Grynberg April 21, 2020
Fiction
The Prophet of Mt. Mitchell
“It’s not what they called maggid, a voice. It’s not even a yearning. It’s a sense of loss, and of wanting what’s ahead or behind but not where we are.”
Daniel Torday April 13, 2020
Fiction
Roses
An unpublished story by an underappreciated master of American fiction.
Stephen Dixon February 25, 2020
Fiction
Father of the Whole World
“So it seemed that I was the only man left in the world.”
Elyash January 10, 2020
