How can I tell someone, how to explain how these next weeks felt for me? How I experienced it and how happy I was, and all this with a doll? On the latter I had long since forgotten, for he was not a doll, he was Barnabas. Of course he did not need food, had …
„Does this really have to be? Just because you did not dare to say ‚100 years ago‘ for the guy, you do not have to go to a concert right now,” I murmured incessantly, even though I knew it was pointless. If Nastasja had once put something in the head, then it stayed there. Hard …
Tobias was one of those men the women did not seem to know were men at all. He was a confidant, soul comforter, helper in distress, but none could apparently imagine him as a lover or partner. They came to him when they needed something. „Tobilein“, they said then, because it had become natural, and …
The naked horror seized Joël when she came home that morning and wanted to take out her toothbrush from her pocket, which she had put in, as always, when she spent the night away from home. But it was not there. The only conclusion was that she had forgotten her toothbrush in a strange bathroom. …
Loud horn made Sebastian startle. Where was he? What was going on? Why was it so loud in his head? Only then did he realize that the horn did not come out of his head but was caused by impatient drivers behind him. As if it really mattered if you would cross the traffic light …
Expectations are deceptive, because they do not have much to do with reality. Mostly we fail because of the non-transferability of wishes. In retrospect, we call these expectations. Wishes can be dismissed as something nebulous. From expectations, we claim that they are predictable and therefore must be understood or seen by the other. It becomes …
„You’ve done something with me,“ Martinique began straightaway, after she had gone to the living room with all naturalness, where she dropped onto the couch. „Take a seat,“ said Christian smugly, although his audacity amused him far more than that it bothered him. „We do not have time for games now,“ she replied unruffled. „All …
