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Light Reflection Over Blues

by Avital Gad-Cykman (Goodreads Author)

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Debbie Ann said: "
I think most of us read collections of prose, short prose, over time. Or, if we’re honest, we admit that we partially read collections. Maybe we pick the first story, the last, and a few in between. Maybe we skim and pick one favorite story. I did n
I think most of us read collections of prose, short prose, over time. Or, if we’re honest, we admit that we partially read collections. Maybe we pick the first story, the last, and a few in between. Maybe we skim and pick one favorite story. I did not do that. I read each story as presented, one after another. I read it this way because I believe this threaded collection should be read linearly, carefully. Emotionally. It’s a collection of feelings.

These stories, most flash fiction, tell the story of a character born in Israel, raised by parents who escaped the Holocaust. One parent lost his entire family. But history did not appear to be discussed in this family or this community. It was rarely mentioned. They escaped death, life became this child, this life. However, their escape from death was temporary; cancer took both of them, leaving the daughter orphaned but determined-- to not just survive, but leap into the blue water of life.

The entire collection begins with this water. In her first story, “Water Memory,” we travel quickly through a life that begins and ends with water. The blue salty water of Galilee: “The Galilee Sea and the Jordan River drop their slanted lids as they stray. The soil cracks, gaping like a disaster area, an abandoned battlefield. “ The character is drawn to water because no matter her grief, she believes in life.

We travel with her. We hike, meet men from around the world, we explore relationships and feel regret. Avital leads us on this emotional journey with metaphor, witty, poetic stories, magical realism and even meta fiction. In one story, “The Key to this Story is Randomness,” the narrator rambles as she drinks. She rethinks all of her stories. What if she was not born in Israel? What if her father never left Poland, if her mother married him in Europe? What if they never married, never had children? Never passed on genetic cancer? It’s a sad reflection over a rather blue but beautiful life. Blue like the Galilee sea. Ironically, the writer places this story randomly in the collection, towards the end.

One of my favorite stories, “So far, Houses,” sets the theme of this character’s life. The stages of pain are felt with the different color houses the child moves into as life becomes more and more complicated. When death grips the family, the house color changes--from white to gray to blue to beige, all as her beloved father, then mother, both die of cancer. Then the character makes her own house-- the color of Cerulean. And there we are at the conflict. The pain and yet the beauty of this gorgeous, deep blue.

The metafiction, “Witches,” is placed appropriately at the end of the collection like a period. The narrator refers to her memories as witches rising from the water in Florianopolis, where she now resides.

I believe flash fiction is an important art form because, properly done, it emotes more effectively than any other form. Avital manages this form with perfection. She masters the poetry of words-- creatively placed to express a powerful world view.

It’s an important work of art. I highly recommend it. ...more "

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“You need to see all types as individuals with varying assets and liabilities, because, Lord knows, one never knows when one is going to end up in the same shape one day. We all can end up homeless. All of us!"... Sam from FIND SAM”
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“OK, look, I was raised in a free market world (A human concept I learned by listening to Mom and Dad debate). If I am hungry then the poor humans will have to suffer a bit. I cannot start feeling guilty. This is my backup plan and I am sticking with it. Maybe Canadian corgis have nicer plans. Well good for them!" Sam from FIND SAM”
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“The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.”
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message 6: by Ward

Mar 11, 2009 10:50AM

Hi Debbie Ann, Just wanted to stop by and say hello. Hope this finds you doing well. Have a great rest of the week. Ward

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message 5: by Chicha

Jul 13, 2008 05:27PM

Hi Debbie, Nnice to meet you in Goodreads..please see my profile too. we have many activity for peace love and Harmony..see our web site in www.californiabali.org or www.aumkar.org. thanks
chicha

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message 4: by John

Feb 05, 2008 10:18AM

Hi Debbie,

KUDOS on completing your literary novel. If you've got the determination to finish your novel, I know you've got the determination to find a agent who will represent it!

Best wishes....WRITE ON!

--John

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message 3: by Debbie (last edited Aug 25, 2016 12:24PM)

Sep 08, 2007 08:17AM

Hey Daniel! Just saw this. Thanks so much! Look forward to sneaking around your reading list.

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message 2: by Daniel (last edited Aug 25, 2016 12:20PM)

Sep 05, 2007 04:28PM