October 17, 2021

Identity

Ever since I was born, I am the same person I’ve always been. Even before my birth, I was a character that has lived multiple lifetimes. I’ve lived numerous lives paved with daunting hardships. I knew true love and unconditional friendships. Although my overall look has never really changed from the green-eyed and brown-haired boy, I was alternately a small kid or a young man on a journey across time and space.

October 6, 2021

Simple

I recently witnessed an unreal case of over convoluting while tackling an issue. We had this project where the solution adopted was excessively complicated. In retrospect, this solution might have been chosen precisely because it was complicated, thus building a complex process made us feel smart even though it did not help to efficiently tackle the initial issue. Needless to say we were not as clever as we thought we were, many unpredicted edge cases appeared and we had to make efforts to fix these unexpected issues.

October 4, 2021

Beginning

I can’t count the number of times I was disappointed by the course of actions and endings of any books or movie. It seems that is it far easier to create a promise than to fulfill the glimpse of potential that was once given to the reader. Or is it that maybe the process of creating truly new and appealing artistic content is long and harsh, such that artists spend more time thinking about the premises and concept of a story but don’t when it comes to extend their work because they are tied by hard deadlines.

September 15, 2021

The Lighthouse

First day at the beach, I finally arrived after driving for ten hours from my hometown - a large city, to my destination for my holidays, a small town by the sea. I rented a house that had a fantastic view on the ocean. After unloading my luggage in the house - it was easy as there was only one person worth of luggage, I took a stroll around in search for a bakery to buy a sandwich.

September 4, 2021

The Sorrows of the Old Reader

The anticipation I’ve recently been reading the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther written by Goethe in the XVIII th century. What’s interesting to know is that the story is directly based on the author’s own experience, it was written shortly after the events described in the novel. The novel is a series of letters which the narrator sends to a mysterious friend. The friend’s replies remain unknown throughout the whole story.

July 28, 2021

Moon Lake

My name is Christian Zülher. I work as a sales representative for a German book publishing company. My schedule had me travel to this remote village in order to sell books to the local library. Needless to say that the business won’t be floroushing for our company thanks to this trip, indeed the mayor left me with the impression that providing his village with books and knowledge wasn’t his top priority.

Stories

These are selected stories that describe my most unsual experience.