Amma the Hugger

Harold is in line waiting to be hugged by the Mother of Absolute Bliss. The queue stretches outside the door halfway down the block after

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Justin Nixon

The faceless bureaucrat sitting behind the gray, nondescript desk endemic to a thousand interrogation rooms made no effort to conceal his indifference. “Simply state your

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Fish Story

  “How did this affair get started?” she wondered, looking at the man lying next to her, surprised by the skinny shanks and a wrinkled

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The Rabbi

Rabbi Avron Grossman is no fool. Leaving the den when nature calls he notes it is 3:05pm on the wall clock. For a minute, maybe

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Truce

The background buzz told him the phone had been lifted from the cradle. “Hello. Ronnie Burns, please.” An awkward silence on the other end of

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The Cordovan Shoes

For a brief moment, an instant before the Boeing 737 touched down at Philadelphia’s International Airport, seventy-eight-year-old Harold Levine recalled, more accurately relived with vivid

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