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Squirrels

Squirrels

A new matchbox story based on your ideas | Fiction | Fresh Soup

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To Danna & Omri

The Matchbox Story challenge was especially difficult this month, and not because the ideas you sent in weren’t good. A few of them were simply excellent, but I didn’t quite know how to make them my own. The story “Squirrels” was ultimately inspired by two submissions: Omri Horesh’s suggestion to write a story about reincarnation, and a p…

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