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My Short Story ‘Cockatoo Tears’ Published in Qu Literary Magazine

May 22, 2018 by Daniella Levy 3 Comments

Moluccan Cockatoo, photo courtesy of OpenCage.info

Greetings all! I’m very pleased to announce that my short story, Cockatoo Tears, was published in the Spring 2018 edition of Qu Literary Magazine, a contemporary journal from Queens University of Charlotte. Here’s the opening section: “Mom. We have to save the rainforests.” These were the seven words with which my seven-year-old greeted me as she […]

Filed Under: Inspirations, Short Fiction Tagged With: environmentalism, rainforest, short fiction, short story

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Disengagement

Disengagement

In other times, they would never have met. They come from different corners of Israeli society, rooted in their own beliefs, busy with their own troubles. Farmers and fishermen, skeptics and believers, immigrants and natives, children and grandparents struggle with faith, loss, jealousy, hope—and the turmoil around them only deepens the rifts that divide them. […]

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