Grimy Gulch

He told us what we had to do and what sort of men we had to reach. He had quit the Twentieth Century… He stepped to the window and pointed at the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

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Life During Wartime

Some time after October 7th, 2023, I subscribed to the English-speaking Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, realizing that in the post-massacre wartime environment, where sides had been clearly chosen and would be rigidly policed, we were going to be subject to heavy-handed, propagandized news and information from our mainstream media outlets. Continue reading