Channah Shifrin

Joined September 2022

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Runner-Up in Get Comfortable Challenge

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Make Me Human. Top Story - September 2023.
We had not even a scrap of shared language, being from different galaxies and all, but after a lifetime of miscommunications I more or less knew what to do. It took a while, but we eventually established a sort of rudimentary sign language. I realized pretty quick that my two community college classes in ASL were not going to be much use here.
By Channah Shifrin2 years ago in Fiction
Sonatine of 23
4/4 time - Andante Bread 1. I imagine the clock will inform me that it is morning. I imagine the sky outside the window will be just-dark. Beginning to think about getting light. I imagine this hill is shivering into Awake. I imagine
By Channah Shifrin2 years ago in Poets
bread-making dance. Runner-Up in Get Comfortable Challenge.
In my sleep I practice the motions: press out and down with the heel of the hand, fold in half turn ninety degrees. I turn to the left. She always turns right.
By Channah Shifrin3 years ago in Poets
If You Can
The radio crackled, spitting static and broken speech into the car. Slumping back in the driver's seat, Cate sighed and turned it off.
By Channah Shifrin3 years ago in Fiction
In her home, I think about the future
The dust settles: the floral suit hangs quietly on the back of a chair, the baskets of flowers dry on the table, cards are opened, gifts are catalogued, photographs are shared.
By Channah Shifrin3 years ago in Poets