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While It Lasts

A very short story | Fiction | Fresh Soup

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Etgar Keret
Jun 21, 2022
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The man who shouts at the hospital in the very short story you’re about to read was someone I really knew. He lay in the hallway where my wife Shira’s grandmother was hospitalized. I felt a connection with him right from the start, perhaps because writers are also people who shout out what’s in their heart while most of the world pays little attention.

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