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    • ” A Close Call”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • ” America Walks” —A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • ” Apps” A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • ” Armchair Eggplant”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • ” The Boiling Frog” —A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • ” When Will They Ever Learn” — A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “A Message from Janis” A Short Story
    • “A So-called Nation” A Mort Laitner Poem
    • “Abstention”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Accolades” by Mort Laitner
    • “All Things Can Be Used For Good Or Evil”
    • “And Me Without A Pro”
    • “And Then She Cried Redux” by Mort Laitner
    • “Armchair Eggplant” in Creole and Spanish
    • “Baby Dolls” Published in Sun Sentinel
    • “Besame, Besame Mucho”— Reviews From Our Readers
    • “Billy Hamas” A Short Story
    • “Blood Computers”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Bread and Butter” A Short Story
    • “Claustrophobia”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Confidential”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Cows, Mosquitos and Jackasses” — A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Cyber Theft” A Short Story
    • “Detritus”
    • “Drums of Ether” —A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Estrogen” —A Mort Laitner Poem
    • “Fat Belly” — A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Gambling”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Gnarled”– A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Gun Smoke” —A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Hamsa” A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Handwriting on the Wall” by Mort Laitner
    • “Head Games”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “I Gotta Feeling That Tonight’s Gonna Be A Good Night”
    • “Inching Toward Third” A Mort Laitner Poem
    • “Kindness Inspires Kindness”— By Mort Laitner
    • “Let’s Get Physical”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Love the Silence of the Morning” prose by Mort Laitner
    • “My Daily Dose” by Mort Laitner
    • “My Personal Life Journey Through the Lens of Mort Laitner”
    • “My Struggle” — A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “My Struggle” — A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “New Horizons” A Mort Laitner Poem
    • “Ode To The Comice”— A Mort Laitner Ode
    • “Report Card” by Mort Laitner
    • “Rocking Pneumonia”
    • “Rocky Raccoon”— By Mort Laitner
    • “Safeword” Satire by Mort Laitner
    • “Smart” A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “So You Want To Write A Healthy Story “—-By Tracie Dickerson
    • “Steam Lining” A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “Testosterone” —A Mort Laitner Poem
    • “The Best-Laid Plans”—-By Mort Laitner
    • “The Cabin”
    • “The Charm Bracelet” A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Collector”
    • “The Con Man” By Mort Laitner in English, Spanish and Creole
    • “The Day the Post Office Became Cool” A Short Story
    • “The Dead Letter Bin”— By Mort Laitner
    • “The E-Card” —A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Eclectic Physician” —A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Elevator” A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Hanukkah Bunny”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Happiness Paradox”—A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Note” A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Price Of Closure”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Prostitute” —A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Rat Lady”— Mort Laitner’s First Short Story
    • “The Risk Taker”—A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Stairs” Gets Some Buzz on the West Coast
    • “The Stairs” The Movie is in the Can
    • “The Storm”—-A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Survey” by Mort Laitner
    • “The Thinker” —A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “The Wall”
    • “The Whatever Virus”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “When Animals Attack”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “You Are Beautiful”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “You Know You Made It”— A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “You Led A Good Life”—By Mort Laitner In English, Spanish and Creole
    • “You Nailed It”—-A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • “I Am Meir’s Brother—Biography of A Family Separated by Destiny.
    • A Canary in a Coal Mine
    • A Case of Mistaken Identity
    • A Case of Mistaken Identity
    • A Fly on the Wall—Kayne Visits Skechers
    • A Four Letter Word
    • A GoFundMe President
    • A Guide To Surviving The Camps
    • A Hateful Caravan
    • A Hateful Hoodie, A Proud Boy 6MWE T-Shirt and My Capitol Building
    • A Holocaust Interrogation Transcript
    • A Multi-Hit Wonder
    • A Note To Citizen Journalists
    • A Plug For “The Stairs” From My Law School
    • A Prayer For Republicans Before the Midterms
    • A Reader Speaks
    • A Repenter’s Prayer
    • A Review Wrapped in a Short Story
    • A Scary Day
    • A Winner
    • A Writer’s Gifts Come Wrapped in Responsibilities
    • About Mort
    • Accentuate the Positive
    • Accolades come rolling in
    • AHO On Sale In Fellsmere
    • AHO Public Speaking Flyer Emailed to Religious Organizations in Tri-county Area
    • AI Stokes My Ego
    • All is not lost. There is still hope.
    • All Trump Supporters Are Members of QAnon
    • An Over-Ripened Body— A Mort Laitner Poem
    • An Unholy Covenant—- A Mort Laitner Satire
    • Anatevka
    • Another Brick in the Wall
    • Another Piece Of My Father’s Holocaust History
    • Applause Resonated Off of The Theater Walls and Echoed in My Inner Eardrums
    • Arts & Sciences
    • Ben and Jerry’s Day in Hell with Magda Goebbels
    • Ben and Jerry’s Flavor Graveyard in Judea and Samaria
    • Bibi says Trump meeting with Kanye and Fuentes a ‘mistake’
    • Bikers, beer and Bavarian Nazi gear
    • Blessed are the Knights
    • Borderline
    • Breasts
    • But Wait There’s More
    • By The Numbers
    • ChatGPT Compares Ben-Gurion with George Washington
    • Chatty on Israeli Tourism —Poetry
    • Chillin’ with My Homies
    • Chocolates Filled With Music—A Short Story
    • Confessions of a one-hit wonder
    • Conspiracy or Hidden Reality—-I watched the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC. I saw a segment where five acts of American anti-Semitism occurred within one week:
    • Contact
    • Crazy
    • Cuba Libre
    • Daisy Celebrates Rosh Hashanah
    • Dance Monkey
    • Dear Trump-supporting friends,We don’t love you, nor forgive you. So don’t bother to apologize
    • Death Squads in America
    • Defenestration— A Short Story
    • Do Writers Make Better Lovers?
    • Does He Think We Are All Idiots
    • Don’t Try To Tell Me You Didn’t See This Coming
    • Donald Puts Punim on Pushkas
    • Early Reviews of Some Of Mort’s Stories
    • Events
    • Facial Hair
    • Fat Jokes Causing Maga to Leave Trump
    • FIFTH ANNUAL MANGO WRITERS CONFERENCE
    • First Chapter “A Hebraic Obsession”
    • Flyer for Upcoming Event At Temple Beth Am in Margate, Florida
    • Free Advice For Writers
    • Furbys
    • G.I. Joe
    • Gangsters vs. Nazis—A Book Review
    • Garbage In, Garbage Out
    • George Santos’ Mea Culpa
    • Godless
    • Gold Sneakers
    • GQ Interview Kanye
    • Grandma Shakes —A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • Hamas WTF Were You Thinking?
    • Happy Endings—A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • Healthy Stories
    • Herzl in Poetry and Song
    • Hitler Wannabe Gets Prison Time
    • Hold Your Nose and Stay Home
    • Holocaust Quiz
    • Home
    • Hooray For Hollywood Guest Blog Writer Blake Laitner
    • How Borat Won the Election for Biden
    • How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
    • How Not To Get Your Mom to Stop Drinking the Kool-Aid
    • i Shiva Commercial
    • Improve Your Knowledge of Jewish History
    • In Praise of Hamantaschen, Purim Costumes and Hanging
    • Is It Kosher?
    • Israel Bonds
    • It’s About Damn Time
    • It’s the Jews
    • J’Accuse…!
    • Join the Team
    • Kanye, Shut Yo Mouth Rap
    • Keepsakes
    • Le Petit Dictateur
    • Lecturing At Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UM In Coral Gables On March 12, 2015
    • Lets Go Brandon
    • Libelers and Slanderers of the Holocaust
    • Life is Art
    • LinkedIn— A Short Story
    • Little Known Facts About Little Known Jews
    • Make A U-Turn—A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • Marjorie Taylor Green Gets Her Revenge—Satire
    • Marjorie Taylor Greene Doles Out Advice On Anti-Semitism
    • Masks
    • Mazziks—The Low-Level Demons I Knew Nothing About
    • Mein gut, what a shonda!
    • Merchandise
    • Moms for Liberty Bans Laitner’s Books (Satire)
    • Monica’s Chanukah & More
    • MTG Stop Pissing Me Off
    • MTG Wants Republican Party to be Nationalistic Christian Party
    • My ‘TOI’ Report Card
    • My Achy Breaky Arm
    • My Cowboy Lunchbox
    • My Dagwood Sandwich Summers—An unkosher story
    • My Day in Hell With Magda Goebbels
    • My Day in Hell With Magda Goebbels—Part Two
    • My Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel–Jewish Journal Op-Ed
    • My Jewish Heritage Garden
    • New Santos Resume Discovered
    • News
    • No Guts, No Glory
    • Of Buzzards, Floaters and Politicians
    • On The Road with Health Stories
    • On Tuesday, November 5, 2024, I will cast my vote for President Joe Biden for two reasons:
    • Once In A While
    • Oops!…She’s Done It Again
    • Outline of Mango Writers Conference Speech
    • Ozempic Blues
    • Paradiso Cinema Speech
    • Paying attention to the details
    • Ploughs and Harrows
    • Poor Life Choices
    • Post Interviews Trump on Santos (Satire)
    • Press Kit Short Biography
    • RAVE REVIEW IN JEWISH JOURNAL
    • Repentance for a Anti-Semitic Football Player
    • Retaliation, Retribution, Revenge
    • Reviews
    • Rogan, Stick Your Pickle Movie Where the Sun Don’t Shine
    • Sadomasochism
    • Scheduled Workshops– St. Cloud Author Symposium— January 31, 2015
    • Schmearers of Disease
    • Seasoning Seniors for the Second Wave
    • Seeds of Change
    • Self-Serving Drivel
    • Sex on the Beach Part Three
    • Sex on the Beach—Part One
    • Sex on the Beach—Part Two
    • Shabbat
    • Shame and Loyalty
    • Share A Coke With Mort
    • Short Stories
    • Shtisel’s SodaStream Machine
    • Simple Solutions Are Often the Best
    • Sitting Shiva
    • So I asked ChatGPT to write a poem about The Times of Israel
    • Son of A Sharecropper
    • South Florida Writers Consortium— Book Your Speakers Now
    • St. Cloud Lecture on Memoir Writing— January 31, 2015
    • stage director
    • Stop Scaring the Crap Out of Me
    • Streaming Jews
    • Suicide by Covid
    • Sunrise Sunset
    • Survey For Republicans
    • Tattoo
    • The Anne Frank Neighbor Conundrum
    • The Art of Appreciation
    • The Cat
    • The Cherished Memory Game—Pickle Edition
    • The Day I Lost Respect for the CDC
    • The Donald Asks Chatty for Advice
    • The Eve of Destruction
    • The Giving Tree by Mort Laitner
    • The Good News and The Bad News
    • The Grapes of Wrath
    • The Happy Meal
    • The Ice Cream Wars
    • The Intentional Destruction of Tikkum Olam
    • The Kennedy Curse
    • The Last Flight to Moscow
    • The Last Jew inVinnitsa
    • The Last Romance—A Mort Laitner Poem
    • The Life of Wolf Laitner Through The Eyes Of Victor Frankl
    • The Mediator
    • The Mug Shot
    • The Myth of The Jewish Nose
    • The Night Archer by Michael Orin
    • The Night Stand
    • The Ones That Got Away
    • The Plane Truth—A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • The Reasons Why
    • The Secret Space Lazer
    • The Slots —A Mort Laitner Poem
    • The Stairs
    • The Ten Commandments—–A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • The Wicked Son
    • The Wicked Son Discusses Ben and Jerry’s
    • Those Two Darn Bathtubs
    • Tikkun Olam
    • Time after time
    • Time—A Mort Laitner Short Story
    • Trump Breaks Bread with America’s Number One Anti-Semite and Holocaust Denier and Neglects to Apologize
    • Trump Learns Tikkun Olam
    • Two Valentine’s Day Stories
    • Two Valentine’s Day Stories
    • Unsubscribe—A Government Edict
    • VR— A Dystopian Tale
    • Waffling
    • Waves and Spikes
    • Whack-A-Mole
    • What They Didn’t Burn by Mel Laytner
    • What Would Golda Think?
    • What Would Golda Think?
    • When Fascism Comes To America—A Poem
    • When it comes to the Jews the glass is always half full
    • Who Says It Can’t Happen Here?
    • Why I Write? To Make G-d Laugh, Smile and Giggle
    • Why Mr. Putin? Why?
    • Wikipedia Page
    • You Say Gazpacho, I say Gestapo, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

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