Yeehaw! A new story!
I’m proud of this one because this was the first short story I worked on when I started writing again after Daniel was born. Actually, ‘short’ is pretty subjective. This one’s a bit on the long side.
I got the idea for this story back when I was at Roosevelt University. One of the elective classes I took was on Women in the Bible (at a college, of all places). I did a paper on Japheth daughter, the young woman who became a sacrifice just because she was the first one to run out to meet her father. The professor was skeptical that she was actually sacrificed–chances are, she went to the Temple to serve out the rest of her life–but I was always intrigued by the part where she asks to go with her friends to grieve, and that it became a tradition for Israelite girls to go ‘weep’ for this poor unfortunate maiden.
It took many years for me to sit down and flesh the story out to what it is now. Enjoy!
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The Cafe in the Woods 
WOW! That is a fabulous story! I laughed, I cried…the very best!
You are very talented! We will miss you, but wish you the very best in WI
Tricia
That’s so cool! I remember it very well.