the wedding (part one: the lifeboat)

January 2016 Ústí nad Labem – Hněvice train Another day without sunrise. I look through the windows of the train towards the bare fields torn here and there by little forests and quiet villages. Without snow the winter here is grey and foggy. I think about the big chimneys of the paper factory where I…

antonia’s life, volume IV

I imagine my life as a bookshelf. An endless one (not because it’s eternal but because it can be “suddenly ended”). There are four books on it. The first is about my birth and childhood. In one of the chapters I poke my younger sister’s eye because I think she’s a doll. In another one…