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Short stories in English
Pieces of writing in this category: 7

1. Grandpa Nachman's Funeral
Grandpa Nachman’s Funeral By Raanan Geberer After years of trying to escape the deteriorating Southwest Bronx, here we were – my mother, father, brother and I –driving back there, going south from our Kingsbridge home. Our destination was the I.J. Morris Funeral Home on Jerome Avenue and 167th Street, where Grandpa Nachman ...
(0 votes)   •Last Modified: 05th May, 2025   •Times seen: 212

2. Checkout Time at the Tri-State Grocer
Checkout Time at the Tri-State Grocer By Raanan Geberer   Ever since I'd gotten the job as a reporter/assistant editor on a small trade paper called the Tri-State Grocer with the covert help of its secretary -- who happened to be the wife of one of my father's friends --  I knew something was wrong.   The pay...
(0 votes)   •Last Modified: 02nd February, 2024   •Times seen: 922

3. Section 8 Leased Housing
By Raanan Geberer It was an ordinary day at the office of the Section 8 Leased Housing Bronx Team No. 2 at the New York Housing Authority’s Central Office. Today was one of the two days a week Rob Bergman went out on apartment inspections. First he’d have to wait for his partner, Manuel Enriquez. He opened his copy of the Daily News ...
(2 votes)   •Last Modified: 20th May, 2021   •Times seen: 2146

4. Down and Out in Indianapolis
Down and Out in Indianapolis By Raanan Geberer Back in the early ‘80s, when I accepted a one-year job as an editor at a weekly Jewish newspaper in Indianapolis to get much-needed journalism experience, I didn’t have a place to live when I first got into town. So I thought I’d stay at the local YMCA until I got my bearings an...
(6 votes)   •Last Modified: 21st July, 2017   •Times seen: 2986

5. Bozza
He heard the sisters giggling. His bedroom window was directly facing their bedroom window, so he ventured a peek. Toni, Nina and Janine Bozza were having a pillow fight. Toni, the oldest, was home visiting from City Island. Her grease-monkey husband Anthony, pronounced “Ant-knee,” was watching the kids while she escaped to a carefre...
(5 votes)   •Last Modified: 07th May, 2016   •Times seen: 4807

6. The Kingdom of Heaven Is Within You
“I geev you de el-lis-dee, yah?” With those words, Tomas Sladek walked from the kitchen to the gigantic 1920s-style living room, carrying two tabs of acid. Rob hoped that they would be as good as the orange sunshine he had tripped on at the State University at Albany, almost 10 years ago. He also hoped it wouldn’t be like tha...
(4 votes)   •Last Modified: 24th July, 2014   •Times seen: 5782

7. Song of the Conquerors
Josh glanced at his watch. It was a Rolex, one of the few relics of the comfortable life in the former United States, along with his pipe, his clarinet and his biology book, that he’d taken with him when he came to this remote corner of the world in search of a new life. Four o' clock. It would be three more hours to go until the fight...
(3 votes)   •Last Modified: 23rd February, 2013   •Times seen: 5297