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Hillel F. Damron

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Hillel F. Damron was born in Israel to parents who survived the Holocaust. He was an officer at an elite paratroop unit and was wounded in battle. He studied films at the London Film School and became a film director of TV documentaries, a feature film, and numerous video shorts. He is the award-winning author of a Sci-fi novel -- available now in a new edition as "Sex War One" -- short stories and film reviews. His novel "Very Narrow Bridge," a first in the series of Gideon Gold Investigation, was published in September 2011.
In February 2012 he was awarded Moment Magazine’s prize for winning its memoir contest with his entry: "The Sweet Life." And that summer in August, his second novel in the series of Gideon Gold Investigations, "Uniden
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When Time Comes

To celebrate my recent inclusion in the ‘Modern Hebrew Literature lexicon,’
below please find a new story—a poem, dare I say—in verse. (Link at the end.)

When Time Comes

There was an old man who lived in a cave/
the valley was flooded and many were dead.
His loyal dog had survived and so had he/
by the fire he read while the dog hunted free.
The rock-rabbits it brought on fire he cooked/
water was ple

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“Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.”
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“The challenge of the writer is to transform—artistically and imaginatively—a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.”
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Hillel Damron Congratulations to the winners of our 2011 Memoir Contest! 1st place: Hillel F. Damron for "The Sweet Life," a compelling look into the bygone era of kibbutz life and the mystery of the silver screen.

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