News of the Day

This week’s Trigger for the 100 Words Challenge consists in 5 words: LIBERTY    EMPIRE    APPLE    YELLOW    ENORMOUS This is my contribution: News of the Day Since October 29, 2011, the statue of Liberty, including pedestal and base, is closed for an estimated 12 month, so that a secondary staircase and other Read More …

The Globe of Bones

Last night, I dreamt that the earth had died. It shrank by degrees, losing some animals first, then the trees, the bushes and shrubs. When the rivers dried up, the naked ground looked like the shrivelled skin of an emaciated old woman. In wain, I searched for something to feed her. When I turned round Read More …

100 Word Challenge

Julia Skinner, eine pensionierte, aber sehr aktive Lehrerin aus England, hat dieses Projekt vor einiger Zeit gestartet – zuerst für Schulklassen, dann aber auch für Erwachsene. Jede Woche veröffentlicht sie einen Aufhänger für eine Geschichte, daraus bastelt jede/r eine Story nach seinem Geschmack. Diese werden auf (Klassen-) Blogs veröffentlicht und können kommentiert werden. Die 100 Read More …

Ruby cheeks

I sat in the café, the corner with the best view, when I saw HIM: the guy who fluttered in and out of my dreams since my last visit to the cinema. Gorgeous. Charming. Eloquent – well, the latter was an assumption. But in my dreams, he was: We had heated arguments, passionate discussions, uplifting Read More …