6 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
The lamb was gone and the staffs were in hand. Still the doors stayed shut, because Moses would not let Israel leave Egypt like thieves.
Israel watched another nation's lamps burn and told God it was jealous. God answered with one memory: a knife, shaking hands, blood on the doorposts.
Israel leaves Egypt with half-risen dough bound to their bodies, and the desert sun finishes what Egypt's ovens could not, baking the first bread of freedom.
Toward evening they slaughtered. At sunset they began to eat. At midnight, the hour Israel left Egypt, leftover flesh met fire and not the morning.
When a child asks what the Passover means, the house remembers both future questions and the many who never left Egypt alive.
Rain drove them from courtyard to house, yet the company stayed one. No one carried flesh outside the circle, and no bone was broken for marrow.
