“ ‘Frieda is in love with her truths in a way I do not love mine. And you all know that she was my ticket to America—my old ur-story.’ ” New flash fiction, by Lore Segal.
This is the second story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. You can read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction stories from previous years,“I forget,” Ilka says to the friends around the table. “Do we allow ourselves to tell our dreams?”“You know the kind of movie in which something has to be prevented? In this dream, there is some fatal thing I need urgently to say to my cousin Frieda, but she is on the far side of an abyss, and then she is on the other side of a wall.
“Frieda and I still e-mail. If we don’t hear from each other, we worry. ‘The earth is flat and has four sharp corners,’ she writes me. ‘It’s easy to drop off the edge.’ She has not replied to my last, and so I promptly assume that she has fallen! She is in emergency! Or, this time, did I go too far?”“I’m trying to remember—what were we saying on the bus in Jerusalem?” Ilka muses. “Frieda and I were travelling with a group of Americans—that was in the eighties.
“I search for what Isaac, the progenitor of Israel, has in common with his brother Ishmael, progenitor of Canaan: They both laugh if you tickle them and bleed when you prick them, which drives poor Frieda frantic. She says Shakespeare probably never met a Jew in his life. She challenges—no, she demolishes—my dearest belief, that it’s the imagination which could save the world, that if we imagined our neighbor’s griefs we would not do to him what we don’t want him to do to us.
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