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1) Company Sold
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Marius workplace is in jeopardy. His employeer sold the company to a big corporation. Marketing will surely be moved to the new headquarters. Unsure about his future, Marius wonders, where his many office plants will end up. Will they survive or die? He raised each of them. How will Marius decide? Move or quit? Leave his plants behind or fight for their survival? Read this tale about life rolls in everyday life. Would you have had the courage to do...
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Karola freezes in her office. Together with three colleagues. Handling customer issues isn't fun with fingers frozen to the keyboard. Karola writes to the janitor and her superior. She wants the day off. Staying healthy instead of freezing. But her boss declines her request. In his opinion the heater works fine. In his office. How will Karola solve the issue? Will she freeze or leave or discuss? A short story about daily life in an office.
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Meeting customers over phone, together with the sales person. Daily business for Leon, a programmer. Listening sales people flirt and dance with the customer. Annoying. Leon prefers going back to work. Stupid talking. A time sink. More than he thinks depends on those meetings and him listening closely. A short story about daily life and unexpected turns forcing decisions.
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Estefanie celebrates her first success as author. She hates the pink decorated of her muffin.
She desperately needs something to eat. A difficult talk lies in front of her.
A talk that might rob her of her writing teacher.
"An authors first success" focus on how to survive the reaction of teachers and author friends. If you love sneak peaks at turning points of life, this thrilling short story is for you.
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Svenja repurposed trash to open her little café in city with a dwindling population. The air filtering and the door closing mechanism against the toxic air outside need repairs. An uncomen visitor enters. Svenja estimates the woman at least lived through three decades. Including those rough years when Earth's ecosystem broke down. Something about the visitor says danger. Yet, she needs the money of every single guest. A fast-paced near future fantasy...
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Mona prefers organic food. Vivid food that tastes of the real world. The shimmering red apple on the table looks suspicious. A genetic scissors product. The pride of her boyfriends science experiments. With her track record of stumbling head first into things she better stayed out of, she stares at the apple. The crossroad of her relationship. How will Mona decide? Read "Coloring an Apple", a story that asks, what might happen if genetic manipulation...
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Gabriella, responsible for communicaiton on the space vessle M41, rereads the declaration of war. The translation contains too many typos. No surprise, given the malfunctioning heating system. Gabriella freezes. The enemy outside does not answer. The protocoll must be fulfilled. Gabriella mistrusts the whole situation. She lived through a similar situation in this very area of space once. A false identification which killed people. Shards of her Life...
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Walpurga Mendel volunteers to test the new time travel machine.She wriggles herself through the small entrance. Her thick wool skirt catches at the door handle. She hates the uncomfortable dress more by the minute. Concern to fit in motivates her to carefully free the dress. How will she ever get out of the time travel room backwards with this dress?Unaware of the real challenge, Walpurga hits the button to start the time travel.Follow Walpurga on...
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Lilianna climbs the highest mountain top. She enjoys the sight.
Climbing back down from the top, she wonders where her guides might be. The rusty hooks make her wonder her even more. Stories about missing climbers she heard before, return to her mind.
Lilianna needs to decide. Stay and wait for her two guides or try and find the way down by herself?
A mind-boggling time-travel story sending you into the future. How does life look like there? Follow...
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