Stories

When reality and perception don't agree. An old man's lament

Prompt

Sometimes I steal flowers from your garden on my way to the cemetery, but today you’ve caught me and have demanded to come with me to make sure “the girl is pretty enough to warrant flower theft” and I’m trying to figure out how to break it to you that we’re on our way to a graveyard.

This is a story I wrote in 2019. However, in the light of present circumstances I felt it was necessary to re-write it, placing the spotlight on an especially vulnerable group in a country and a people that was plunged into vulnerability as a whole by brutal aggression.

It is actually a fast shot from the hip, re-written in the heath of anger and frustration, and it may contain some mistakes, since it is only very scarcely edited. If so, I sincerely apologize for them.

A collection of short stories about the boys in their college years

A young man faces the torment of imprisonment in his own mind.

A man who has recently lost the love of his life is deep in denial and about to let himself starve and freeze to death, but then an unexpected visitor forces him to open his eyes and look past the all-consuming void he has been left with.

Stone seeks an easy way out, but he is pulled from his path. One question remains; is Stone strong enough to make it through this crazy journey called life?

Two sets of poems featuring different takes on the theme "Seasons".

A Poem that I created after the tragedy that befell my home, Boston