Yoni Mayer

106 pieces · 2021–2026

Writing

Everything in one place: dispatches from the road, short fiction written against a timer, the army journal, and four years of college columns.

Sep 2025 Army Blog Week 3 Time in the army is a paradox – youre constantly busy and yet you’ve done nothing at all. 8 min · WORDPRESS Aug 2025 Army Blog Week 2 Throughout last week, the question on everyone’s mind was, are you going to the Gibbush? 5 min · WORDPRESS Aug 2025 Army Blog Week 1 We had our phone a bit throughout the day during the first week since we’d need it to fill out forms and questionnaires… 3 min · WORDPRESS Aug 2025 Army Blog Draft Day After a year of waiting, lots of trouble with meitav, almost not being allowed to do the gibbush and pulling every… 2 min · WORDPRESS Aug 2025 Travel Day 5: Munich Trip I thought the blog was over but something crazy happened on the final day. 1 min · SUBSTACK Jul 2025 Travel Day 4: Munich Trip With nothing on the schedule until 10, I gave myself the luxury of waking up a bit later at 7:30. 4 min · SUBSTACK Jul 2025 Travel Day 3: Munich Trip I woke up at 5:15 this morning again to catch a train. 4 min · SUBSTACK Jul 2025 Travel Day 2: Munich Trip The day started extremely early. After going to bed at 1 AM, I woke up at 5:15 to have enough time to wake up and make… 5 min · SUBSTACK Jul 2025 Travel Day 1: Munich Trip This trip was planned very last minute as an effort to stave off the increasing boredom I'd had in my first work-free… 2 min · SUBSTACK Jul 2025 Fiction As he fell, he waited for As he fell, he waited for the calm of last moments. You know it. 1 min · SUBSTACK Jul 2025 Fiction She didn't like it but she'd been recalled to life for a reason. She didn't like it but she'd been recalled to life for a reason . 1 min · SUBSTACK Dec 2024 Fiction First came the smell of the flowers First came the smell of the flowers. Tulips, or orchids, he wasn't sure. 1 min · SUBSTACK Nov 2024 Fiction She suddenly realised she might be alone for the rest of her life She suddenly realised she might be alone for the rest of her life . 1 min · SUBSTACK Nov 2024 Fiction She knelt on the carpet in her new living-room, a big cardboard box in front of her, unwrapping ornaments Set the timer to 10 minutes for this one She knelt on the carpet in her new living-room, a big cardboard box in front… 2 min · SUBSTACK Sep 2024 Fiction The fire was getting closer. The fire was getting closer. Whips of red hot flames shot out from the blaze like a King Cobra's bite. 1 min · SUBSTACK Sep 2024 Fiction The pink glove lay on the ground, almost covered The pink glove lay on the ground, almost covered. 1 min · SUBSTACK Sep 2024 Fiction She felt for the lock in the dark She felt for the lock in the dark. How long she had been in here she didn't know. Maybe a day, maybe two. 2 min · SUBSTACK Sep 2024 Fiction Was it a knock that had woken her? Was it a knock that had woken her? She had been lapping in and out of consciousness for hours now, like the tide… 1 min · SUBSTACK Aug 2024 Fiction The house wasn't the same to her anymore. The house wasn't the same to her anymore. Don't misunderstand. It was the same structurally, of course. 1 min · SUBSTACK Feb 2024 Fiction Outside the cabin, the wind howled through the trees, while inside, the old woman's fire was nearly out Outside the cabin, the wind howled through the trees, while inside, the old woman's fire was nearly out. 2 min · SUBSTACK Nov 2023 Fiction He had waited twenty years to return it He had waited twenty years to return it - he rather enjoyed the idea that there would be a reason he would get to see… 1 min · SUBSTACK Nov 2023 Fiction He had waited twenty years to return it He had waited twenty years to return it — he rather enjoyed the idea that there would be a reason he would get to… 1 min · SUBSTACK Oct 2023 Fiction She had made a poor job of hiding the damage She had made a poor job of hiding the damage. 1 min · SUBSTACK Sep 2023 Fiction They had been together for twenty-five years They had been together for twenty-five years but it felt like only an autumn afternoon. 2 min · SUBSTACK Sep 2023 Fiction The footsteps were moving away. The footsteps were moving away. After 10 minutes of uncertainty, not knowing whether his captor was approaching his… 1 min · SUBSTACK