Joram Piatigorsky

Joram turned to writing following a successful career in science. To his surprise, the two have a lot in common. Joram's latest publication is a collection of short stories, Notes Going Underground. Additional publications include The Open Book and Other Tales of Love and Yearning (short stories), Jellyfish Have Eyes (novel), Gene Sharing and Evolution:
The Diversity of Protein Functions
(non-fiction), and The Speed of Dark, a Memoir (non-fiction).

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Recovering

…But the next election rescued you from imminent disaster. Finally, a normal person comes along, a good dude, miraculously wins, becomes president. Yes!  … However, the defeated villain doesn’t say, “I’m sorry. Good luck. I’m behind you all the way. …”  Instead of an olive branch, he/she grabs a golf club and says, “See, I won. Smashed par like I smashed everything else. I’m a smasher!”…

The stoplight has turned from red to green. I don’t need a policeman’s blessing or a driver’s manual to know that I can push the accelerator and continue my journey.

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Evolution of Friendship

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Amelia’s Defeat

Amelia, a perfectionist, was crushed, bitterly disappointed, devastated. Depressed, she likened her failure to the cliché “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.” She had been confident that this time – finally – she would achieve her aim. A lover of literature and retired after a successful career as a lawyer, she aspired to write and took a series of workshops in fiction.

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