Stick the Pin. Make the Call.  

Project coordinated by Bashie Lisker

Everyone has a shidduch story… right? We decided to find out.

The challenge: find a local phone book. Stick a pin into it. Call one of the pierced phone numbers. Ask them for a shidduch story. Does everyone have a shidduch story?

Five intrepid writers test the bounds of social norms and find out.

MATCH!

Rachel Newton

You can blame my brain cells, dying by the millions during my second week of having kids home sick.

Lots of physical stimulation there (carpets of used tissues, Play-Doh balls stuck under table legs), but intellectual stimulation… less so. (Apart from essential questions like, “When someone lives to 120, do they pass away on the night of their 120th birthday, or the day before their 121st birthday?”)

So when an editor posted a writing challenge, it was the perfect distraction.

Writer sticks a pin in the phone book, calls the number the pin landed on, asks them for a shidduch story.