Why Jellyfish?

Editor’s note: Fusing memoir and fiction, Joram’s own research fuels the adventures of his protagonist Ricardo Stein in Jellyfish Have Eyes. As an NIH scientist acclaimed for vision research, he had 20 years of dissecting the eyes of vertebrates under his belt when he...

A Letter to Lillian

Many years after Dr. Ricardo Sztein had passed away, the following letter was found tucked away through a rip in the underbelly of the mattress of his room. We don’t know when he wrote the letter since it wasn’t dated. Poor Ricardo, a good man, tormented, who craved...

Ricardo’s Trouble with the Human Connection

This month I’m posting excerpts from earlier drafts of Jellyfish Have Eyes that feature the relationships between Ricardo Stzein and other key characters in the novel.  Ricardo’s troubles began when he was browsing through a book he purchased on vision in...

Ricardo the Scientist

This month I’m posting excerpts from earlier drafts of Jellyfish Have Eyes that feature the relationships between Ricardo Stzein and other key characters in the novel. The last two sentences of this excerpt are the most impactful. In a completely fictional, partly...