Night Flower
Chapter 6
Part III
Elka was exceptionally surly the next morning. She muttered a sullen “Good morning” in Chaiky’s direction after Chaiky had arrived 40 minutes late and then disappeared in...
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 7 Part I
By Esther Rapaport
“What? You want a strange girl to move in with her? Really, Yoel!”
“Why not, Ima?”
Mother and son happened to be attending the same wedding in Bnei Brak....
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: Chapter 12, Part II
By Esther Rapaport
Be happy? Chaiky took the tray with the little bowls of salads and dips and walked to the table. She looked at her children. Dovi was sitting...
Night Flower: Chapter 8, Part I
By Esther Rapaport
“I thought that maybe it would be good for me if someone moves in with us here.”
“What?” The darkness outside the bus window was so inky, Mira...
Night Flower: Chapter 12, Part III
By Esther Rapaport
When Vasiliy Antonovich, a writer for the Segodniya newspaper, was assigned to write an exposé about the life of one of the oligarchs of Saint Petersburg, he...
Night Flower: Chapter 10 Part I
By Esther Rapaport
Yoel and Shifra arrived late in the evening for a visit.
“Ima isn’t very excited about the idea of someone coming to live with you.” Yoel got right...
Night Flower
By Esther Rapaport
Chapter 6, Part II
It was nearly two in the morning when Yoel pushed aside the wooden panel that covered the mess of wires in the electric box on...
Night Flower: Chapter 10 Part II
By Esther Rapaport
“Ima told me years later,” Chaiky said thoughtfully, “that the aunt’s visits began to take longer each time. She no longer sufficed with standing downstairs near the...