This week’s accomplishment: My First Publication in 2nd Person…sort of

Writing fiction in second person point of view is one of those fancy tricks that many people attempt, but few people pull off. I’ve always wanted to do it, but my first severaltries sounded stilted and like I was trying too hard.

But this week’s Binyan (inside Hamodia)contains the first story where I think I pulled it off. I think that part of what makes it work is that it combines the first and second person. Let me explain.

I wrote the story as an interview, where the reader only is privy to...