Short Story

Luckily, I have good ears and I heard the convoy in time. I squatted a little, tensed my legs and leaped up to the lowest branch of the tree beside me. Just in time—the pack of dogs was already coming… Continue Reading →

The were-eagles and our kind have been at war since the beginning of time. Well, it’s more like fifty years since we’d decided to move into town, but it feels like an eternity already. And they’re not were-eagles, just like… Continue Reading →

He felt like stifling. Every so often he glanced somehow disgusted at the stubby fingers of the man beside him. He pictured them soaked in sauce and oil at some gluttonous meal. All this time he was fretting more than… Continue Reading →

„Can’t you see we go mad without Him?” (taken from a suicide’s last note) The headlights of the car flashed over the old man’s spectacles who sat exhausted in a chair on the motel’s terrace. The advertisement which stated ironically… Continue Reading →

I awoke suddenly when I heard a sound. Quite a loud sound – a kind of banging. The sweat trickled down my back. Who could be in my flat at this hour? It must be getting on for three in… Continue Reading →

I have a ratty side and a nice side. Most of my friends only want half of me, but you have the wisdom and courage to embrace the whole me. Is that love? Maybe not, but whatever it is it… Continue Reading →

It all started the moment he couldn’t recognize his hands. They were maybe the most familiar part of his body that he watched almost the entire day while writing, painting, or holding his cigarette lazily over the armrest, but this… Continue Reading →

He was a few chapters away from finishing the trilogy he’d been writing for almost twenty years. A narrative unlike anything written to date. A prose no one had ever created before. Something that was to get him into the… Continue Reading →

Geoff made two errors of judgment in his life, both in the middle of Winter. Three, if you count the ex-wife, but that wasn’t life-threatening. His first should have taught him, but it didn’t. He was cooling a place down… Continue Reading →

This is the story of Genesis, of a time before time, when God had only five children. And these children, the five archangels, had started fighting and disputing the Holy Kingdom because for their games, Heaven was no longer wide… Continue Reading →