Signing the Oath
One reason someone like Binyamin, Miriam’s brother, might volunteer is for the thrill of living on the edge and becoming a popular...
Ditching The Murder Weapon
I took back my dagger, now as loathsome as a serpent, slid it into my sheath, and wiped my hands inside the skirt of my tunic. My eyes...
The Sicarii, a Splinter Group of the Zealots
In The Deadliest Hate, Miriam learns of the Sicarii from her cousin Eli on his ship to Caesarea. He explains: Another threat to Roman...
Elderberry Tea
In The Deadliest Hate , Phoebe rushes into Miriam’s sitting room with a letter from a goldsmith’s shop in Caesarea. Miriam explains: ...
Clouds As Ancient Symbols
In The Deadliest Hate , the second novel in the Miriam bat Isaac Mystery Series, Miriam heads to Caesarea aboard her cousin’s ship. She...
Read June's short story published in Gargoyle: "The Confession".
Is the man sentenced to crucifixion really guilty of killing the sandal maker, or because he is lame, was he simply too slow in leaving...
The Greatest Roman Extravaganza
In The Deadliest Hate , Miriam tells us what it was like to go to the games: What a sight! Thousands filled the four tiers of the...
The Stench Of Decay
In “The Confession”, Miriam speaks of the stench of decay as she passes the laboratories in Alexandria’s famous medical school: I...
Nature's Janitors
In June’s story “The Confession”, Iso is about to be crucified, but his friend Baba, a produce vendor, goes to Miriam bat Isaac to see...
THE DRINK, June’s newest short story
A variation on the noir love triangle, “The Drink” is about a beautiful teenage girl in 1970s Upstate New York who is picked up by a...