I've been, and still am, posting a story as part of a challenge that I've been running on and off, the #puckreads #hockeyfiction challenge. I've got one more installment of the story to post before i'm caught up :)

'The Fifth Question' is a story connected to 'Truth Love and Sushi, Mr. Klein Goes to Albany, Never Again and The Rogue Files. It's also connected to the New York Empires series. #puckreads #hockeyfiction

It's a story about men's and women's hockey, about Passover, set during the middle of a better managed pandemic, told through the lens of Jewish social justice. You can find the earlier installments through a link in this thread: https://twitter.com/nystacey/status/1251137964266131457?s=20 #puckreads

The installment I'm about to post, for the prompt 'stick' leans more into Passover and the developing relationship between the characters. I hope you like it.
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Jess definitely wasn’t going to miss a tutoring session. Nope. Not at all, not ever, even though she was tired and couldn’t keep her eyes open. So she sent an email.
To : Legendsfan18
From: JessJess
I’m exhausted. Can you call me? 555-5555 #puckreads #hockeyfiction

She got into bed and took her phone with her. Soon, it rang.
“Hey,” he said, his voice rolling over her. “You want a bedtime story ?”
“I thought you’d sing me a lullaby,” she quipped back, settling further under the covers.
“Ah. Lullaby. I see.”
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He paused and she wondered what he was going to say. “What will stick? Will it stick if I sing the melody?”
“At this point I have no idea. Soothe me, please, Ben Klein. Or loose me forever.”
He laughed and the sound of his laugh made her smile.
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