AN UNEVENTFUL JOURNEY

A man and his wife on an overnight train to Berlin are confronted with dreams and realities which are equally uncomfortable. 

Winner, Enizagam Journal (USA) short story competition 2017

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LINK TO READ 'AN UNEVENTFUL JOURNEY'

THE SLEEPWALKERS

A STORY OF POLISH JAZZ 

Jerzy and Wanda live in Warsaw, the gloomy, oppressive Cold War Warsaw of the early 1960s.  Only music makes any sense in their lives; it's the beginning of the golden era of Polish jazz.  'The Sleepwalkers' was published in Glassworks Magazine (USA) in 2017.  Click on the link below to read it: 

LINK TO 'THE SLEEPWALKERS'

  

THE CHINESE GENERAL

First published in the American Literary Review, Spring 2017.  Published in New Millennium Writings, 2021, and winner of the New Millennium Award for Fiction, 2021  

Link to The Chinese General

THE DISPATCH RIDER 

A short story set in spring 1946
Published in InkTears, May 2017

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4FnubA-N8Q3b3gyOG5QUlQ2blk

VARYA'S BLACK SUEDE SHOES

A story of Odessa 
Une histoire d'Odessa et sa cathédrale

published by Terrain.org, February 2017 

http://www.terrain.org/2017/fiction/varas-black-suede-shoes/

The Luft Mensch

A musician walks through the Odessa Privoz on Sabbath eve, balancing his hunger against his obligations to G-d. 

READ 'THE LUFT MENSCH' HERE:                                            LINK TO 'THE LUFT MENSCH'

Konrad's Bukovina Khosidl

 

Published in Sunspot Lit (USA) July 2021, and awarded the Sunspot Lit Editors' Prize.

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LINK TO KONRAD'S BUKOVINA KHOSIDL

This story was the inspiration for the London Klezmer Quartet's CD 'to the Tavern'.  Click on the link below to hear the elegaic tune 'Dobriden' which opens the album; it has all the feeling of the story.