“Finally! I have been looking forward to this moment since spring.”
“Yes. Me too. The ice will be thick soon. We will play hockey.”
“Won’t that be wonderful? Let’s try the ice.”
“Let’s try.”
“Here on the edge of the lake it is always thicker.…
42: Have you accidentally pressed the mute button?
“Are you sitting on the toilet?” Jane asks her brother when they are talking on the phone. “You are making funny sounds.”
“No, I am not. I am calling you from the bedroom.”
“Anyway, when will you come to visit us?…
#43: Memories from his childhood
John is in his doctor’s office. There is a photo of her family on the wall.
“What exactly do you remember?” she asks John.
“Everything. Almost everything. The memories come back in pieces. The older I get the further back I remember from my childhood.…
The signal
The man is in a dark hotel room. He gets his food in the room. He gets the morning newspaper every day. He reads the whole newspaper. He never goes out of the hotel room. He is waiting for the signal.…
Continue...#41: A new song
John did not fall. He jumped. He jumped into the ice-cold water from the bridge. His heart stopped very soon. But strangely he could see and he could hear and he could move his hands and legs. The water took him to a beautiful place.…
Continue...#40: Have a nice life!
“Do you remember your name?”
“No I don’t.”
“Do you know how old you are?”
“No, I don’t.”
“Do you remember your parents?”
“No, I don’t.”
“Do you remember anything from your life?”
“No, I don’t.”
“Great, Mr Smith. It seems the memory deletion has been successful.…
#39: Let’s play husband and wife
“Ken, you come here. You will be a good father. Not the one who leaves his daughter when she is only five. You will be a good husband, too. You will not shout at your wife nor beat her… And you come here, Barbara.…
Continue...#38: The cat gets them killed
‘I want to sleep in his bed,’ the cat says to herself. ‘He is big. He is strong. He is almost always at home. And when he comes home from a walk with the Lord, he chases me away from his bed.…
Continue...#37: Recycled food
“Put the returned meat into this pot and the potatoes into this one and the rice into this one,” says the owner of the restaurant to Joe, the new waiter. Joe doesn’t like the idea of giving returned food to customers.…
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