Apr 20, 2007 | Fiction |
Excuse me, said the moon. I’ll just put the kettle on. Kleinzeit nodded. The day knocked three times at his eyeballs. Morning for Mr Kleinzeit, said the day. I’m Mr Kleinzeit, said Kleinzeit. Sign here, please. Kleinzeit signed. Thank you very much, sir,...
Apr 14, 2007 | Fiction |
Though august had only begun, autumn insects were already singing. He thought he could detect a dripping of dew from leaf to leaf. Then he heard the sound of the mountain. It was a windless night. the moon was near full, but in the moist, sultry air the fringe of...
Apr 10, 2007 | Fiction |
I clicked the gate shut and slipped down the alley. Through one fence after another, I caught glimpses of people in their dining rooms and living rooms, eating and watching tv dramas. Food smells drifted into the alley through kitchen windows and extractor fans. One...
Dec 20, 2006 | Fiction |
Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled worried eyes, with restless eyes… In their lapels the insignia of lodges and service clubs, places where they can go and, by a weight of numbers of little worried...
Dec 20, 2006 | Fiction |
…in a world where our every move is monitored and recorded, where in department stores cameras watch you, where people constantly jostle you, where a person cannot even make love without being quizzed the next day by researchers and polltakers (where you make...
Dec 20, 2006 | Fiction |
One day i saw a boy i had gone to the school with, maybe first grade, standing by the fence, alone, fingers gripping the steel wire and staring off into the distance and i told myself that the guy must live close by or something and that was why he was standing alone,...
