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Weekly Contest #343
Shadow Puppets Meyer, my father, had grown soft and physically lazy during the two years since our family had emigrated to the U.S.A. He was from Eastern Europe, a survivor of Hitler’s concentration camps, a man who following his liberation, celebrated every day of life. And he was extremely industrious, the epitome of “the American Dream.” He remained ambitious and industrious in his work but his physical laziness began to manifest itself when he abandoned his daily constitutionals. My parents had managed to buy a small house in an elite C...
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