Author: Melanie Chartoff

Melanie Chartoff is a stage, screen, voice actor, new author, recently published in McSweeney's, the New York Times, Isele Journal, Entropy, Crows Feet, The Jewish Journal, Funny Times, Purple Clover, Glint, Entropy, Verdad, Bluestem, Mused, Jewlarious, Defenestration, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Wry Times, Crows Feet and five editions of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

Being of sound mind, advancing years, and diminishing energy, I do hereby bequeath herein the entirety of my original personality to my heirs. After perfecting it in my glorious youth, and having it serve me well for many fruitful years in the attraction of my three sequential late husbands, I have found myself letting said personality lie fallow of late in a state of neglect. In truth, in my waning years, it has gotten to be extremely high maintenance and I can no longer energetically keep up with its many demands at this time. Hence, rather than allow it…

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