So What!_To Reap and Shatter_Lapland Express_Ms. Fortune (II)
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So What!
Excerpt from the Watchman’s Review. Translated and reviewed by Adolf Huffenslafenmaker: Circa 1936, Berlin Germany.“Because I said so. That is what I told her.” “Is that what you really said? Do you believe that works?” It is the implied power that troubles me. Not that I am influenced by power, no more than anyone else I believe. I believe that there are those who command attention, allegiance, anything, and everything it takes, to remind us that without their superior abilities, we would be nothing. Then there is that age old lesson about being under their roof, protection, security, that ...
To Reap and Shatter
“Are you coming tonight?” The boy wriggled with discomfort under his father’s sure stare, neglecting to meet his eyes. His father sighed, and the boy detected the disappointment behind the simple sound. “You don’t have to. That’s why I asked.” The boy crossed his arms over his chest self-consciously. “I didn’t like it last time. Everyone was so sad.” His father squatted to his height, cupping his round cheek in his calloused palm. “You make them happier, Marat. They’re more at ease when they see a child with me.” Marat shook his head. “I don’t want to see them. I don’t want to see their fam...
Lapland Express
The boy in carriage 7Did you know that there are two direct trains from Stockholm to Lapland every day?The landscape is ever changing, as long as we are talking about shades of grey.Looking out of the windows you will see Arlanda, Uppsala, Boden and Umea,all the way to the northern coasts and read houses of the arctic circle in Luleå.As he looked through the window, watching the lakes and cities pass by,he felt that he was living his own life behind as well, and with this, a high.All the spreadsheets and errors messages and system cataloging and endless testing,the feedback rounds and brainsto...
Ms. Fortune (II)
"She's a fortune teller, you know, though you'd never know it. Look at her, wobbling along on her bicycle. "If she could really read the future or anything, she'd do something useful wouldn't she? Win the lottery or something." "She must know nobody likes her." The woman doesn't have to be a mystic to know what they think of her. Even if they troubled themselves to keep their voices down, it is stamped all over their faces. "Madam Sybille" cuts an unpopular figure, I'm afraid. Not only is she a woman, she is also aging, which is barely allowed. Worse, her waist is not that of a teenager. It ha...