Jennifer Lang's shorts have appeared in the Maine Review, Atticus Review, CHEAP POP, Miracle Monocle, Pithead Chapel, Gravel, and Brevity One-Minute Memoir. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and serves as Assistant Editor for Brevity. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she now lives and writes in Tel Aviv, where she runs Israel Writers Studio and attempts to write her first memoir. Find her online at https://israelwriterstudio.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/israelwriterstudio and on twitter @JenLangWrites.
The cube of 5 is 125, expressed as a sum of two squares in two different ways: 125 = 10² + 5² = 11² + 2². Our family of 5 makes an odd-numbered cube: father, mother, son, daughter, daughter; or man, woman, boy, girl, girl; or Philippe, Jennifer, Benjamin, Daniella, Simone. * 125 is called a Friedman number in base… Read more →