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Lifa at half past two

Lately, I have had a lot of alone time. I have always enjoyed spending time by myself. Have time to think. Time to ponder. Time to talk to my cat and myself. Saturdays are the best days for alone time, although I am alone all the other days too, but Saturdays are the best. AContinue reading “Lifa at half past two”

Closure

I dreamed about my dad for the first time in my life last night. In the dream he was seriously ill, but exactly as I have seen him in pictures. I was just a child when he left this world, so I don’t remember him very well in real life. I never really got toContinue reading “Closure”

Eleven

Every time I see you, you just drift into the horizon. You come as unexpectedly as always. Every time, it surprises me how worn and ravaged you have become. You are beautiful in a way that Nastassja Kinski was in my youth. Shy, mysterious and dark. But no one can say you are sexy, whereContinue reading “Eleven”

The Night Manager

It was the middle of the night. I was standing outside in the street down in the harbour quarter and the blood was flowing fresh from the cut in my skull. The cut was about 5 inches long and razor sharp. I thought it was a bit strange that there was so much blood inContinue reading “The Night Manager”

Just one more time

The days are getting shorter, and it’s getting darker every day. The leaves that are still on the trees hang there mostly in defiance or because they have rusted as the colour suggests. A few months ago, they were young and flapping freely in the wind as if life would last forever. Now the windContinue reading “Just one more time”

Far away friend

It was a couple of hours after sunrise. I sat at my regular table outside the Havana Vieja restaurant at South Beach and enjoyed my first Montecristo of the day and my second double espresso. I was up early and had left the hotel before the sun was up. Strolling along the beach at sunriseContinue reading “Far away friend”

Circling the drain

You don’t have cancer. Not cancer, I replied. Did we think I had cancer? The doctor looked at me over her glasses. No, we didn’t think so. I didn’t even know why the doctor had called me in for the appointment, and now it had been determined that I didn’t have cancer. Are there moreContinue reading “Circling the drain”

The endless summer

It was summer vacation. Finally, I had time off. It was sunny every day. We lay on our backs in the grass holding our arms up, with our thumbs and mid fingers together, and measured how much blue sky we could see through the gap. This summer it was blue both inside and outside theContinue reading “The endless summer”

The one that almost got away

“I thought you got out of this mess! Are you still in this business?” Cato slammed the beer glass down on the table so hard that the beer foamed. We had previously worked together in various projects, but that was a few years ago now. “You gave us all hope that it was actually possible toContinue reading “The one that almost got away”

Burn after reading

Andrew was back in the office after two weeks in Asia. Often, people go to Bangkok or Phuket when they travel to Asia, but not Andrew. He had told some funny stories from his previous visits to Bangkok. This time he had ridden a motorbike up to Sop Ruak, also known as The Golden Triangle, where Thailand,Continue reading “Burn after reading”