Night Flower: Chapter 13, Part III
By Esther Rapaport
The curtain was pulled aside again. Gently, this time.
“Excuse me.” Rachel’s smiling face peeked through the slit. “I just wanted to ask: Did you eat already?”
“Yes, dear....
Night Flower: Chapter 17, Part III
By Esther Rapaport
Chaiky answered the ringing phone. “Hello?”
“Is this the Struk family?” a girlish voice asked.
“Yes, it is.”
“You’re Dovi’s mother, right?”
“Right.” Chaiky raised an eyebrow and took a bobby...
Night Flower
By Esther Rapaport
Chapter 5
Part I
She had just settled onto the couch, sefer in hand, when the phone rang yet again. How could she lower the volume of the ringer?
Elka....
Night Flower: Chapter 16, Part II
“Ima!” Naomi ran over to Chaiky as soon as she walked through the door. “Great, you bought the oil! Dovi and I went out of the kitchen and closed...
Night Flower: Chapter 7, Part II
By Esther Rapaport
Shoshi’s fork and knife were now down. “For us, after two and a half weeks, it was enough, and then we rented an apartment right near us...
Night Flower: Chapter 13, Part II
By Esther Rapaport
They had given Dovi a painkiller, but the trauma, confusion, and fear, along with the strange place, didn’t let him fall asleep. Chaiky sat on the blue...
Night Flower: Chapter 18, Part II
By Esther Rapaport
“But why?” Elka refused to understand.
“I want to help her.” Noa refused to back down.
“And you think she’d want to accept such help from you? Come on,...
Night Flower, Chapter 11, Part III
By Esther Rapaport
Chaiky sat down near the bags that she had just put on the floor of the kitchen and wondered tiredly if she’d really intended to cook all...
Night Flower: Chapter 17, Part II
By Esther Rapaport
At the nurses’ station in Pediatrics, there wasn’t a moment of quiet. Doctors passed by, giving instructions and comments; parents or children came and asked for things....
Night Flower: Chapter 18, Part I
By Esther Rapaport
Long after Prisoner Struk had left, Josef Podernik, the interrogator, sat and toyed with the ashtray on the table. He didn’t exchange a word with the interpreter,...