Alphabet Soup

Alphabet Soup

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Good things come to those who wait in line | Fiction | Fresh Soup

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Etgar Keret
Jul 12, 2022
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I like writing stories about heaven. Not because I really believe it exists, or that I think if I write a particularly good story about the afterworld they’ll let me in without a wait. It’s just that there’s something in writing about a perfect place that helps sharpen my recognition of how far I am from that perfection, that wholeness. So far that the …

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