I love it when seagulls fly in the city. <br I love it when things don’t make any sense. When airplanes leave white trails in clear blue skies as if it were Summer. While it’s cold outside. When we cross without colliding. When saucers fly in moonlit skies. When a plant drowns in too much […]
moreA friend calls another friend. The one friend had been wondering who to call. So many friends, yet noone to bloody well call. This thought made him more depressed than he already was. Was he desperate enough to bother his parents? For godssake, he thought. That would mean admitting failure. Yes mum and dad, I […]
more“When I was 4, you threw my favourite underpants away.” I could pretend I had no idea what he was talking about. But I did know. Sure I knew. I could, for example, have said, “oh really? oh well. Haha, that must have been funny…” Cough. Instead, I chose to sit down in front of […]
moreNew years go by with increased speed. As does the moment it comes, that new year. Gone in a flash. Happy new year, my friend! Let it be a better year than last. Let it be cancer-free. Let it be opportunity-filled. Let it be worriless, fearless, endless in time.Happiness. We used to have time. Now […]
moreA cathedral. It is one of the biggest in Europe. A man and a woman enter in a flurry of excitement. Their cheeks are cold and pink. They plan to give the homeless lady outside a few coins on their way out. But first, they want to see the famous Christmas stall. A man stops […]
moreShe is always busy. A friend once asked why she fidgets so much. “Well,” she said, “as soon as I sit still, I fall asleep.” She is doing perfectly fine this Christmas. There is so much to do. Buy a tree, decorate it, lights, candles, food, cards, Christmas dinners to prepare for herself, for her […]
moreHow typical of me to show up at the wrong address. Here’s this meeting I’ve mentally been preparing for. It’s an important meeting and not even because it’s about money. There will be four people listening to me because I asked them to. I wrote them a letter saying, “dear sirs and madams, keep your […]
moreThere was once a man who felt it was time for a change. He wasn’t sure what exactly, just change. Any change. He changed his hair. He grew a beard. He changed newspapers. He changed jobs. He changed the way he spoke. Next he changed wives. With that came a change in friends. He changed where he […]
moreThe amount of people we see but immediately forget. Then remember all over again the next day as we pay for our groceries. We’re thinking about whether to buy sour dough bread or whole grain and looking at the texture of all those loafs on all those shelves, not at the person handing them to […]
moreThe little girl is almost ten. She scratches at blemishes in her skin and plucks her hair. Her father once told her a story: a young girl had died of the hair she had eaten. One by one. The hair collected in her gut, caused internal bleeding. This is when our little girl started picking. […]
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