I hear a tray being set down on the low table by the couch. I slowly open my eyes.“Would you like to have a cup of tea with us too?” Asks the woman who was reading next to me.“I think I like tea,” I reply and sit up carefully so as not to further annoy …
Hans in luck, that was the boy who – according to the Grimm brothers – received a lump of gold the size of a child’s head as a reward at the end of his apprenticeship. With that he set off on the journey to his mother, during which he exchanged the gold for a horse, …
You had left the rain behind you and came the next night even though the sun had dried everything up. I didn’t ask for an explanation, just glad you were there to continue.
“But this does not happen, I want to look,” I say in the most ingratiating tone that I can. That seems to convince her. In any case, she steps aside and lets me enter. She leads me to the in-house library. Carefully, I open the door and freeze. From floor to ceiling, all walls full …
“But what is a Knurx?”, I tear myself from my thoughts. “Not now, Daddy.”, I still hear, and then the front door falls into the lock. What did I want now? Oh yes, I look at the screen and my fingers reach into something sticky as they sink onto the keyboard. That was the small, …