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Squeaking swings squawking seagulls screeching toddlers. Spring is here. The playground is full tiny tots crawling up and down like ants. Scrambling on steps, slides, sandboxes, remembering how it was last year.
People come together - intentionally, by coincidence, because of work, travelling, as neighbours, competitors, family, clients - and behave in the strangest ways. These snapshots of life's quirkiness seek to bring levity to any grey day. A short story collection to chase away the blues. One story a day keeps the gloom away. Enjoy!
Mina travels across various decades, leaving a trail of magazine clippings and print snippets. Her bead jewelry and clay animal kingdom, packed in the travel case, move across continents and oceans. Come along to the Quantum Dimension.
Wilhelmine Doehrn (b. 1 May 1893, Wesel, d. ..., Nierstein, Germany) married Hugo van Gent in Wesel (Prussia at the time) sometime after 1900. On 12 October 1918, Wilhelmine received a passport to travel to Belgium, to visit the grave of her husband, who had fallen as a soldier during World War I. She was in her sixth month of pregnancy, with her first and only daughter, Elisabeth Luise.Wilhelmine never remarried, living with her daughter until her death.
A promenade on our way to work, to run errands, on the weekend along other paths. A glimpse here, a flash of color there, sometimes an image stays in your memory and brings joy afterwards.
'A collection of five short stories - childhood memories, the quandaries of household repairs, ageing gracefully and the rarity of pandas. Looking at moments with awe, humour and patience, finding the balance between life's quirkiness and poetry.'
Nine daydreams to enjoy sitting on the sofa or park bench, lying on the picnic blanket or on the trainride home. Join us on these little escapes from everyday rushing, appointments and to-dos. You saw something, caught a glimpse, remembered it while you slept, here it is on paper.
Short stories on adventures in offices, trips and day-to-day city life. Friendships, lost loves, coincidences, all coming together, sometimes happily, sometimes unexpectedly, sometimes undone for good. Brief snapshots of quirky moments and people scrambling in an urban metropolis. Where are we going? Who are we leaving behind? How much did that cost? How many new chairs, at what price? Who will sit there? Mean coworkers, grumpy travel companions, enraged friends, so many masks and too few real feelings of goodness and harmony.
This has little glimpses of light in a kaleidoscope—a little red triangle here, a green diamond there. Altogether, these short (very short) stories will catch us by surprise while going through the daily grind.
If we live each day just as it is, a whole world in one day, then we discover infinite subtleties, signs, symbols. Who do we bump into on the street, what we eat, how is the weather. If we listen carefully, there is a melody being played, quietly in the background. This collection of words tries to capture those melodies, to find the sway in our daily comings and goings.