All poems and stories

  • Disappointment, a poem

    Legal notice: this has nothing to do with anyone I know! It’s a fucking poem! The definition of disappointment is simple. It is a feeling we have when someone or something behaves in a way we did not expect, or do not like. Seems to me that disappointment arises when we start to believe that…

  • Pink, a short short story

    The spaceship flickered in and out of visibility as it emerged from the ocean. The package has been delivered and primed. The craft disappeared again, momentarily outlined by moonlit seawater flowing over its vast body as it slowly rolled before rising into the night sky. It left the planet unnoticed, just as it had come,…

  • Hans and Sabine, yesterday, tomorrow and life in-between

  • The root of all evil, an opinion

    The first book of Timothy, chapter 6, verse 10 states that the love of money is the root of all evil. Wise words. But I disagree. In part because I am an atheist, more so because there is something else that is at play before money enters the picture. Money itself is just a tool.…

  • Miss you, a short short story

    My heart is not broken. It still beats normally. It is my mind that is a mess. A nest of “if, then, why, what” thoughts. Questions that never stop. Why did you leave? If only I did this, rather than that! How can I restore that which was lost? Can what is lost be salvaged?…