GREAT READS → GREAT READS: FICTION Issue 1071 · July 23, 2025

In Peace: Part 2 of 3   

Writing may help her. What might help me right now is to smash something. Break, crush, and demolish something so it can never be glued back together

In Peace: Part 2 of 3   
SUNDAY

“I’m waving from where I stand, do you remember me now?”

The light is glaring between the slats in the blinds. It’s two o’clock in the afternoon. Rivky will have a field day going on and on about how lazy, undisciplined, and utterly useless I am at doing anything that requires brain cells. I can feel her anger already.

I need a double shot of coffee to combat her voice in my head.

Miri knocks on the door. “Ma, are you up yet?”

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