Hungarian Jews haunt differently @swordsjew.bsky.social

If I keep writing this story I'll eventually get to her days as an editor at Newsweek when she employed "interns" over the years (including @swordsjew.bsky.social) to help with her holy work..

"The deepest and most reliable blessing in my life has been to wander the world sustained by literature, which made me notice things I never would have noticed otherwise. This is the spookiest and most delightful thing in the world." —Daniel Handler

(@swordsjew.bsky.social true words right there)

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@swordsjew.bsky.social this piece is definitely not a *love letter* in the style you recently wrote (the hunky doctor's gorgeous brown eyes!), but I employed a similar second-person perspective in writing this.

@swordsjew.bsky.social Mazel tov on the new little guy!! I recommend reading this story to your new nibble, although his memories might be too fresh for bris milah-centric horror just yet 😂

I usually write purely original stories, but there was something incredibly inspiring in retelling an old story and setting it today.

May have to do it again very soon.

My story is inspired by a 300 year old folk tale first published in the Kav Hayashar, a Jewish German work of ethics, stories, and Torah interpretations. You can read the original story here: www.sefaria.org/Kav_HaYashar...

@swordsjew.bsky.social there's a part in this about Wexner nearly freezing to death outside his Vail home at age 40 and while not technically "arctic horror," I was definitely thinking of you while working on that!! 🧊❄️☃️

@swordsjew.bsky.social see if you can spot the haggadah for you 😂