Fawzy Zablah, at The Blogs

Oct 5, 2023, 10:51 AM

For Charles Willieford The Cuckold Husband makes a very important decision: He hired a Moroccan Jew to kill his wife’s lover. It had to be a Jew. He didn’t have to be Moroccan, but that wouldn’t hurt the enterprise either. No...

Oct 1, 2023, 12:15 PM

Preliminary Notes on a Miami Cannibal

May 4, 2020 Gabriel called. He’s ready to work on the documentary. We’re so inspired now that we’re already sending each other five-minute-long Voice Notes on WhatsApp discussing ideas. We have come to the understanding that despite the gruesome details...

Aug 19, 2023, 7:18 PM

The great synagogue of Rionegro

I arrived in Rionegro, Colombia in the early evening. My girlfriend, a somewhat levelheaded Guajira, was meeting me at the airport. She was originally from Santa Marta but relocated for work about two years before we met. I spied her...

Jan 14, 2023, 10:52 PM

My many Publix lives

Surfside Florida Publix. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia-Alexf.)

We moved to Miami right after I turned nine. I’m an early December baby, a Sagittarius. In the beginning we lived on Coral Way, right off of SW 17th Avenue. We lived in the real Miami, in a mostly Cuban...

Dec 4, 2022, 7:39 AM

Why are you afraid of growing old with me?

Her husband died on Saturday night. I didn’t want to talk to her but she caught me on the walkway to my mother’s apartment so I had no choice. “How’s Al?” “He passed on Saturday.” “Pauline, I’m so sorry- “ I gave her...

Nov 22, 2022, 11:00 AM

Rarity of the Century: An Excerpt

When the world ended I fell in love for the first time. But before any of that, I’d just turned twenty-seven, I was living back home with my flamboyant uncle in Miami Beach and cleaning tables at a churrasqueria. For...

Nov 11, 2022, 4:49 PM

Upon Leaving Israel in 1986

Once we boarded the flight, I was fighting my older brother for the window seat. I won the treasured spot on account of my lungs. I looked at my brother next to me. “How fast does it go?” “Really fast,” he...

Sep 26, 2022, 7:10 PM

The Frail Sentimentality of the Non-Religious Jew

For Isaac Bashevis Singer I Malachi was born in Israel in 1976 and came to Miami with his mother and older brother in 1986. They watched ‪Rocky IV on the flight to Florida. Back then, as a nine-year old, he thought...

May 22, 2022, 7:03 AM

Is it illegal to be a sugar father?

Photo by José Martín Ramírez Carrasco for unsplash.com

“You’re a rabbi? What kind of job is that for a nice Jewish boy?” -Author Unknown- At the ripe young age of 70 on the morning of May 16, 2022, I received a call from Washington D.C. at 4:45am ET. I did...

Mar 6, 2022, 8:51 AM

This SS-Waffen Tuxedo Is Stained with Salty Tears

Pieter Schelte Heerema in SS uniform on his wedding day in 1942 © Wikimedia Commons

He thought he was at the wrong church; he didn’t recognize anyone in the wedding party. Upon getting closer to the front of the building, he confirmed he didn’t know anyone at all. He searched for the name of...

About Me

Fawzy Zablah was born in El Salvador but raised in Miami. Among his works is the short story collection CIAO! MIAMI and the novel RARITY OF THE CENTURY. His fiction has been published widely at Hobart, 3AM Magazine, Acentos Review and Expat Press. His new novel, This Modern Man is Beat: A Novel in Stories, was just published by SIMI Press: https://simipress.com/books/this-modern-man-is-beat/

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