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Month: December 2014

Essays

Is it Fiction or is it Memoir? Sharing our Stories, Sharing Our Souls

December 26, 2014 Stefanie Cohen

Recently, I tried something new.  I was the guest at Congregation M’kor Shalom’s book group, where I led a discussion about two of my short stories. Of course, I share my writing every time someone [Read more…]

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Silenced

December 7, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s 1865 and I live in Mississippi. I am a slave. My family has been enslaved as long as I can remember, but that’s just to white men. The kind of slavery I’m talking about [Read more…]

Stories

Venus de Madre

December 6, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s almost moving day. The boxes are partly packed and the walls are naked. Without paintings and family photos as camouflage, I can see all the scratches and dings we created over the years. Here, [Read more…]

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Lucky Lady

December 5, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t’s been fifteen years now that I’ve been changing the dining room chandelier light bulbs. Fifteen years of paying the bills and sitting in the driver’s seat of the large blue Buick and cooking for [Read more…]

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Stories

Surrender

December 4, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

In childbirth, the final stage of labor before pushing out the baby is called transition. You get to the point where your contractions are so bad—intense, they call it, or productive—that you realize you are [Read more…]

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Zenia

December 3, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

  When the sun descends from the top of the sky to the place we cannot see beyond the horizon, its glare is greater than human eyes can withstand. Its light reflects off the sea, [Read more…]

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Softening Edges

December 2, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

  [dropcap]I[/dropcap]t was unexpectedly calm at the precipice. Chase studied the yellow-green blades of new grass that poked through the sparse soil that barely covered the jagged rocky edge of the mountain. Delicate and strong. [Read more…]

Stories

Shorn

December 1, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

Stefanie’s newest story, “Shorn,” has been published in the Fall issue of Storyscape Journal .  

Upcoming Events

Read stories in advance of Stefanie’s Dec. 14 appearance at M’kor Shalom book discussion group

December 1, 2014 Stefanie Levine Cohen

Stefanie will appear Sunday morning, December 14 at the Congregation M’kor Shalom adult education program’s book discussion group. She’ll talk about two of her short stories (which you can read by clicking on the links [Read more…]

Stefanie Levine Cohen

Stefanie Levine Cohen studies and writes about birth, death, afterlife and the human condition. Her stories explore moments of transition in characters’ lives and focus particularly on the intersection between the psychological and the spiritual.

How does a person reconcile the need to understand his or her place in the universe with the tug of that person’s emotional truth? Themes of parenting, aging, loss and self-discovery recur throughout her stories and resonate with readers of many stages of life.

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