Speaking of revenge stories ... I loved this one. It was desperately sad with a long future of sadness ahead, regardless of the triumph our main character ended with. This is a story of a girl who loses her father to the selfish people of a village eager to buy wares from a Jewish man, but equally eager to see him tortured. It happened on the say-so of a wandering gentile, who was as "grasping and vindictive" as he proclaimed the Jewish people to be.

“I will kill them,” I told my uncle. My voice was steady and I was quite sincere. “I will surround that town with death. I will wrap death around their hearts, and I will rip them apart.

“I will kill them all. Every one.”