Background on my new story: “Just Perfect” (or why I believe we all live in a Magical Reality)

This week,Hamodia‘s Inyan Magazine published my new short story (and it’s actually for adults!), entitled “Just Perfect.”

The original version of the story was explicitly a piece of fantasy, but as I mentioned in a previous post, I transformed the story into an example of magical realism rather than fantasyin order to address the concerns of my lovely and knowledgeable editor atHamodia.

In the original version, then called “Easy as Pie,” the transformation of Libby’s life occurred after she bum...