JOIN
Harry Steven Lazerus
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Short/Flash Fiction Collection, Historical Fiction
Harry Steven Lazerus was born in Brooklyn in the last century. He’s lived in New York, Israel, Texas, Chicago, Thailand, and a work cubicle in California. Harry has degrees in physics and taught physics and astronomy at CCNY, worked as a software engineer in the space program, and picked apples in Kibbutz Tsuba. His op-ed column, “The Contrarian”, appeared in Houston’s Change Magazine from 2011 to 2015. His short stories have appeared in more than a dozen online and print magazines; “Becky” won Anotherealm’s Higney Award for 2009. In 2017, Spuyten Duyvil published a collection of his short stories, Thirteen Tales from the Hippocampus. In 2024, Copan Books published the historical novel, The Sikarikin.
Harry Steven Lazerus' books
The Sikarikin
It is 66 CE. Jerusalem seethes under Roman occupation. The bloody fratricide and subsequent war against the occupier are seen through the eyes of four people: Judah, the revolutionary, who believes that only a dedicated vanguard, using violence, can prod his people to revolt; Rabbi Aaron, leader of the Peace Party, who sees war as leading to destruction; Reuven, Rabbi Aaron’s son, who defies his father and joins Judah and the revolutionaries; and Drusilla, the Roman commander’s personal servant, with whom Reuven falls madly in love.