Translated material
Life, Condensed
The figure “91” is dedicated to the student and friend of Gotham to the norm Kruazier, who died in July at the age of ninety -one years. Cruisier was still a writer and musician, was friends with writers of different times and even lived in the smallest house in New York, about which she wrote an essay.
754 participants, the main prize-10-week Workshop for novice writers and 91 (!) Dollar in cash. A mass of short but interesting stories. Jim O'GRADI from Brooklyn won, writing about why he had to escape from Bronx. The second place is Nel Dorin, who described the impressions of nuclear tests on the Bikini Atoll in 1956.
But the story of one of the finalists, Jane Lane from New York, is very touching (however, all the stories of winners and finalists are worthy of reading ):
Recently, I met a man who was born in the same year and also lived as a child in Brooklyn - a few quarters from me. "Remember the plane crash?" I asked. On December 16, at 10.21 in the morning, the United Airlines crashed on the seventh Avenue . We were nine years old.
“Of course, everything happened because of me. I played baseball and hit the plane with a ball, he fell. I ran home and told my mother. ”
“Charlie, it was a clash in the air! Didn't you know? "
He looked at me embarrassedly and said quietly: "Ah, yes, of course."
I re -read my translation and with pleasure noted to himself that he had “fit”.
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Andrey Sharogradsky
International Radio Offer Freedom. Author and host of the information and analytical digest, podcast "Time of Freedom"