I really enjoyed writing this piece and playing both with the tropes of a noir and world-that-never-was of the shtetl idyll.
Alex Langer
@alexlanger1993.bsky.social
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Lawyer, SFF/horror writer, SFWA member. Jewish social movements and organized labor. Words in Apex Magazine, Heartlines Spec, On Spec, and elsewhere.
!["“Two men vent into a poob and ordered a glass beer. Dey hadna been in dat poob more dan vonce or twice before. Vell, day sip deir beer un’ dey sit talking un’ schmoosing. Dey sit un’ talk un’ talk. At last de barman leans over de counter and he says to dem: ‘Oot!’ Nu, dat’s how it is mit a shul. I come here every veek and Hakodosh Borukh Hu [the Holy One Blessed Be He — that is God] kens me vell, un’ he don’t mind if I take it easy. But dese bleggages dat come vonce or twice a year — no! Dey daven or dey shot op!”"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cmvc2f5b5fou3ijbgagiovlj/bafkreidrx7362njqldoafxmqg32l3bjyisjksq2eafl54shjza7piyeggi)
