Excerpt from a draft chapter. Short, sorry, but not really spoiler-y. This is from If You Should Ever Meet A Rabbin.

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His words finally sunk in. We were all going to die here.

My knees gave way and I sat down hard on a pile of coins; worthless to me now, when all I wanted was to live to see the next day. I thought I could feel the unimaginable weight of the mountain pressing down on me and suffocating me.

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Fun fact: I keep my stories in gmail drafts, at least for now, so the prompt is actually quite accurate.