After a long career in the Chicago area as an internist, I retired and moved to Florida. Decided to take a fiction writing class with Hollis Alpert, an elderly well-known author, editor and movie critic. After perhaps a year of basic fiction writing, including critiquing many novels and short stories and following his guideline of “write—rewrite—get it right,” he gave us a list of five topics for a short story. One was “A Silver Box.” I had long been interested in the Holocaust, more...
