Absurdist, Short Stories

Despite all its tales of death and dying, this delightful and highly original collection of stories by Lazarre Seymour Simckes is teeming with life. The cast of characters includes God, Satan, Noah, Job, psychiatric patients, doctors, rabbis, a sexton, a Torah scribe, professors, a talking moose, and a parrot that sings American hit songs. Some stories are left up in the air, as if waiting for Elijah the Prophet to explain them at the end of days.

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