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two muffins and a carton of milk

published on: 17.11.2011 in: All entries

“Just a second!” hollers the baker’s assistant from the back. “Take your time,” says the client. The assistant emerges, she is fixing her apron. “It’s so bloody cold in here, I needed an extra sweater.” The client says, “you’re right. It is cold in here,” and “how are you otherwise?” The assistant’s cheeks are flushed. […]

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naughty or nice

published on: 14.11.2011 in: All entries

“You better not be lying,” says a mother to her six-year-old who claims to have had only one cookie, “because if there’s one thing I detest, and I mean absolutely hate, it’s when people lie.” The six-year-old has already left the room. And so it’s not the boy she’s talking to, is it? It’s the […]

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little swans

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The two girls run around the opera house on high heeled shoes that are too big for them. They wear black velvety and satin dresses, they fiddle with their hair, they put on pink lip-gloss. As the dark engulfs us and the red curtain opens – the one the girls marveled at – I fell […]

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separate ways

published on: 10.11.2011 in: All entries

A sunny autumn day. A bench in the park. People squeeze together to sit on it. A woman decides she may as well use this moment to read a book. Another woman already sits there, she uses the same moment to eat a bagel and to study the meadow. “We speak the same language,” she […]

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you seem kind of different

published on: 05.11.2011 in: All entries

She always consults her pendulum. The stone is a roze quartz. She knows it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy, of course she does. And so it’s best not to ask questions that are important. Will she have a child? No, it says. It swings left to right. Ten years later, she is still single. Her 45th birthday […]

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I read the news today, oh boy

published on: 03.11.2011 in: All entries

If only you’d known this morning, dear woman. If only. You didn’t. You simply decided it was time to get your act together. No more tears. You have an entire future ahead of you. Life begins at fourty, is what they say. So begin then. Right now! You actually sit down to have breakfast with […]

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don’t be angry, says the wind, they are afraid

published on: 31.10.2011 in: All entries

The woman he was born from speaks without waiting for a cue. I can’t tell you how amazing the trip was and special and all these wonderful people we met like this one lady who was sick but maybe not really sick and anyway we took her to the hospital there but they didn’t find […]

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white man and the negative force

published on: 29.10.2011 in: All entries

A man feels a negative force is holding him back. His marriage recently ended. His career has reached a dead-end. He feels he is getting older than his age would merit. His son is suddenly asthmatic. In a dream it comes to him: it is the wood carving from Kenya on his wall. The one […]

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no doubt mr. Ehrmann

published on: 25.10.2011 in: All entries

I met a man. His wife has cancer. I knew this but we weren’t friends so I never discussed it. One day, I told him about my divorce. It made him sad, the way his wife’s cancer makes me sad. We became friends. Soon, I find myself in the waiting room of the hospital. My […]

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dear friend

published on: 21.10.2011 in: All entries

Dear friend. What do we make of the passing of time? How do we survive the years in which we remain unchanged? Affected, yes. But unchanged. You sent me a photo of you. I haven’t see you for over eight years. We tried so hard to be in touch. You were in Nigeria, I was […]

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