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Red Alert

This is not a false alarm | Fiction | Sour Soup

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Etgar Keret
Apr 14, 2026
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Illustration by Maya Betser

While I was writing this story, Iran fired a missile at Israel. I didn’t know that, because the alert didn’t go off on my phone. In my story, the protagonist is enjoying an ice cream at the beach right now. Like me, he knows nothing about the missile. If he looks anxious, it’s not the missile. There are no missiles in this sto…

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