5 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
God said he would rain down on Sodom. The rabbis found a hidden offer in that word: rain can be water or fire. Sodom chose fire.
For one hundred twenty years Noah warned of water. The crowds mocked and boasted they would roof the earth with iron if fountains burst from below.
Rabbi Baruch named the dead man's socks. Color left the son's cheeks. The horses that had been readied for Ukraine were unsaddled.
His finger stopped on a Spanish word for synagogue. The Aramaic had been a river he trusted. He copied the word twice, and the second line cut the paper.
Mountains trembled under Sodom for more than two decades. A girl who hid flour for a starving friend burned. Abraham still drew near to plead.
