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Banana Yoshimoto
Found a red leaf on the ground, someone sent me a message. At the airport, a woman with blond curled hair stared at me...
Baggage check
It’s gonna be a tough day. How are you? I am fine. I can tell when you lie because your mouth smiles but your...
Nine million bicycles
Wrapping children’s books in mulberry trees, wrapping my heart in words of sobriety. When I am afraid. There are nine million bicycles in Beijing....
Susanne Osthoff
The German hostage in Iraq has been released today. It was all her own fault, people say, she’s a reckless mother.
Cuadros de familia (2)
Would you please come back in a few minutes? The priest throws me out, he looks uptight, he has the same wilted face as...
Goldberg-Variationen
It is handwritten on the disc like an incantation, my magic formula to get back to myself. There is a crack at the end,...
Hasards et coïncidences
Pascal is telling funny stories, typing on his notebook. Agathe has made a piece of pottery, a proud woman in white, her belly is...
Bordeaux
I am not sure whether to give a tip. Isabelle is serving me, a girl with glasses and chubby face, she collects the money...
Kriss Crumble
It has been raining for days, the rain gets harder. The radio sings nursery rhymes, gets excited about strong winds and high waters in...
San Juan de la Peña
Where are you going? Where the wind blows.Where are you going? To the market, buying fruit. Sue opens the door, warily, she speaks French...
Camille’s mother
I’ll have a coffee, I say. The silent stream of water, the unobtrusive sound of birds and nearby traffic far away. I hear the...
Passing car
The girl turned her head and looked at me. It was raining, the grey color of the clouds swallowed the morning sky, the city...
Cuadros de familia (1)
I still remember the tubes meandering out of him in the desperation of the ICU. He would be dead in a jiffy, doctors said....
The girl from Greece
She proudly shows her dress and her shoes to me and I like it. In the empty rotunda, the black piano man with white...
Longing for leadership
Today’s news blown up, bloated: The Bavarian premier and right-wing challenger for German chancellor, Edmund Stoiber, speaks at an election meeting, his nagging, barking...
Entre temps
Aujourd’hui, le lundi, j’ai travaillé tard. Comme les semaines dernières. Où je travaille il y a un microcosme. Il y a des machines haletantes...
On violence (1)
A leaf on the ground crushed by feet. Floods have vandalized the German city nearby. The riverside road still shows the ravages of water....
Marie
The teenage daughter of my neighbors, Marie, sits on the steps in front of the house, smokes quietly. She must be 17, 18 now....
L’Institut Français
A call from the Institut Français où je suis le cours de français le lundi. A girl left a letter for me there, a girl with...
Stories from the parking lot
Dresden, downtown. Tuesday in the afternoon. At the parking lot, a woman with red hair feeds the parking-meter, runs out of change. She looks...
It never occurred to me
It never occurred to me to create a blog of my own until 2 weeks ago. It was evoked by chance, as often in...
L’insouciance du papillon
Il fait une chaleur lourde un instant, des gouttes de pluie timides le prochain instant. Des nuages blancs, des nuages gris. Je suis dans...