Written Tales

  • Ellis Shuman

    Ellis Shuman is an American-born Israeli writer and travel journalist, author of Valley of Thracians and The Burgas Affair. His fiction captures the quiet edges of modern life.

January 24, 2026

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After a convenience store robbery, the case turns on a supposed eyewitness—a tall man in a beret—seen by only one person, and now impossible to find.

May 2, 2022

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Ellis Shuman’s story follows Hastings through another day of repetition and polite emptiness, where small gestures echo the quiet desperation of a man long lost in his own design.