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Oren Shafir

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Born

Israel

Website

https://shafiroren.wixsite.com/orenshafirwriter

Twitter

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Genre

Humor and Comedy, Suspense, Fiction

Influences

Mordecai Richler, J.D. Salinger, Maxine Hong Kingston, Damon Runyon ...more

Member Since

May 2008

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You can follow Oren's flash fiction horror and suspense blog at oddballwriter.blogspot.com. Born in Beer-Sheeba, Israel, he has been living in Bagsvaerd, Denmark for many years. His fate, therefore, seems to involve cities with long names that have tricky pronunciations and start with the letter B. If this were true of a character in one of his stories, it might have literary significance, but probably not. Aside from short stories, Oren has dabbled in flash fiction, poetry, film and musical theatre. ...more

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Average rating: 4.5 · 24 ratings · 5 reviews · 4 distinct works

	HeavyGlow Flash Fiction: Two Years Burning Brightly by Stacy Taylor (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bill West (Contributor), Adrian S. Potter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Truths and Other Lies 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, Vol. 5 by Marlow Peerse Weaver (Editor), Oren Shafir (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Truths and Other Lies -ebook 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Maybe everything is my fault. Maybe, you know, before I was born, everything was perfect. Like maybe, the Jews and the Arabs got along, for example. Then, I was born, and the Arabs said, 'Another Jew? How much do they expect us to tolerate?' So, they attacked."
From The Almost Man”
― Oren Shafir, Small Truths and Other Lies -ebook

tags: humor, jewish-literature, jews-and-arabs

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“First, you find out that you can lie straight faced to get out of some forced march or run or something. Then, you find out that you can steal, as long as it's not from your own platoon. Finally, you end up like Jinji, wearing dead man's boots and not thinking too much about it."
Dead Man's Boots”
― Oren Shafir, Small Truths and Other Lies -ebook

tags: army-life, israeli-army, jewish-history, war

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