20
24
PUBLICATION | STORYTELLING
The Secret Miracle
THE SECRET MIRACLE is a short story by
Jorge L. Borges, set in Prague during World
War II. A Jewish playwright named Jaromir Hladik is arrested by the Nazi and sentenced to die by firing squad. The readers experience Hladik’s journey in his final days of captivity. The concept was to portray
the short story asa factual event in a found document of Hladik.
The concept was to portray the short story
as a factual event in a found document of Hladik. Realistic artifacts, texture, and imagery pertained to the events in the story, including Hladik’s mental health assessments, hospital and police report about him, and his own journal expressing the trauma of being sentenced to death.