“He’s disabled!”, is the first thing you say of yourself when you sit down with me, your nostrils flared like the ones of a horse after a fast run. I’m just wondering if you’re going to neigh, but you skip it and verbally stay in human language, „So stupid, that can’t be true.“ I pretend …
Elsewhere, a mother also gives birth. Four babies, without help, without advice or instructions on how to breathe. She can just do it. She licks the little ones clean until the fur is shiny. They find the breasts to drink on their own. It happens as a matter of course, in the warmth of security, …
He: Sorry, is this chair free?She: (looks up from her newspaper in amazement) Yes, like many others. (And points meaningfully to the almost empty coffee house)He: But that’s the nicest chair in the whole café.She: (looks closely at the chair but apparently cannot tell the difference) Why?He: What why?She: I can’t see that there is …
You turned away from me, my colleagues. If I spoke to someone directly, I got a brief, evasive answer. They seemed to be embarrassed by my presence. I went through the last few days in my mind, checking if anything had happened that could justify this behavior, but with the best will in the world, …
At the beginning, you still think that none of that matters. At first you are so euphoric and endorphin-impregnated that you think that none of this matters. You are an early riser, a morning worshiper who is so invitingly tickled in the nose by the first ray of sunshine that you can’t help but jump …
„Hello, Doctor,“ Lisa greeted the lawyer with a beam of joy, which made him even more unsettled. „Who had the idea to be happy when he came to visit?“, he thought sadly to himself. „Exactly we need you now,“ said Lisa, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, especially not to …
Her gut feeling told her that evening, be careful. So, she parked the car a little away. It was lucky that she was there a few minutes early, which never happened to her. Then she didn’t go straight to the house as usual to get to the fifth floor where his studio was located, but …
At last he was in the car, the engine was already on and was about to call her when the passenger door opened and his wife jumped into the car. So, he left the cell phone plugged in and contented himself with looking puzzled.„I thought I would come with you,“ she said, „don’t look like …
„Why don’t you say anything?“ Comes one of the two partners pointedly when you get lost in the so-called intimate togetherness.„Because I have nothing to say at the moment“ would be the honest answer, but it would certainly be wrong because the answer follows, just as inevitable as the amen in prayer:„You mean because you …
Sometimes I’m just so infinitely tired of the challenges of the day, of the persistent split that can be observed everywhere and ultimately makes no sense, because nobody really wants it and still everything is done to make it progress. But on the contrary. One starts underhanded verbal warfare on the most meager occasions and …