Short Stories

Having murdered the little Jew, he might have thought that the hard part was behind him, except that it hadn’t been hard. All it took was a twist of his neck, as though he’d plucked an apple from a tree; hardly an accomplishment of note for Piotr the Strongman...

I, Nisn Rosenthal, Chief Rabbi of the City of Prague, do hereby set down the events of this evening at Number 14 Maisalova Street, two blocks south of the Altneu Synagogue, while they remain fresh in my mind.

Rabbi Adam is a centuries-old character in Jewish folklore, a proto-superhero who battles supernatural evil. The Hidden Saint is an origin story of sorts for this figure and I wrote the following story for it. But while Rabbi Adam and the Sorcerer of the Woods wanted to live, it didn’t want to...