„You don’t really mean that serious!“, she snapped, and he immediately withdrew his hands because even as a man he had not escaped that she meant exactly what she said, for once. Maybe it was just the shrill sound that made him flinch. When she burst into tears suddenly and completely unpredictably, „You see, I’m …
It was one of the rare afternoons, a laptop and a tea on the couch. I thought I was lost in what I was doing when I saw a crawl out of the corner of my eye. It was irritating, inasmuch as I would perceive in these moments under the conditions of a single plodding, …
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 …
