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Literally. My sister Maureen, heavy with child, as they say in my grandparents’ Bible, flies in from Calgary. Grandma and Grandpa, my mom’s parents, drive in from their retirement village in Kelowna. They’re dressed, as usual, in matching golf outfits—white pants, peach-colored shirts and spotles...
Night was already falling, and he was supposed to be in before dark. He knew that Mama and Papa worried when he was late—after all, they lived in Montreal now, no longer in a small village where everyone looked out for everyone else. But he and his new friends, Abie, Benny, Louie and Milton, had ...
It’s not much of a station. It’s more of a storefront, really, with a booking area out front, a couple of offices, a detention room with a table and chairs, and a cell – only it isn’t even a real jail cell with bars and stuff, just a locked room with a cot and toilet. I can’t stop shaking. It’s n...
randma?” Alex said softly, opening the door a crack. Grandma turned. Her hair was flattened against the pillow. Her skin was almost as pale as the sheets on her bed. Alex had the horrifying thought that if they didn’t find the deed, Grandma would just fade until she was taken away along with the ...
The village was silent. All were asleep. All except Yossi. Bathed in yellow moonlight, he lay wide-eyed on his bed, remembering. The fear on the faces of his neighbors … the pages of the prayer books curling, smoldering … the grim determination in the Rebbe’s eyes … the strange sideways glances o...
The sun beat down on Joey’s shoulders and he could already feel a line of sweat trickling down between his shoulder blades. It was a scorcher, but he wouldn’t have cared if it was twice as hot. Today the golden bat was perched on his shoulder, and dangling from the end of it was Bobbie’s daddy’s ...