In April of 2024 I found myself in London. I came over specifically to see some musicals. I’ve booked the tickets all the way back in 2021, but due to covid I never got to use them.

Ik loop een bar binnen aan de rand van het plein. Door de ramen zie ik daar nog een tafel vrij. Toen ik naar binnen stapte viel mijn oog meteen op een vrouw achter de bar die warm naar elke gast glimlachte. Toen ik de deur opendeed, lachte ze ook naar mij.

Mensen blijven maar in en uit lopen. De ronde draaideur staat geen enkel moment stil. Soms dan denk ik dat de constante stroom eindelijk eens stopt, maar dan komt er weer een haastige oude dame voorbij. Die het laatste stukje rent om de draaideur te halen. Ze ziet er niet uit alsof haar lichaam dat nog aankan.

I waved at you when you smiled at me and I saw it all happening so fast. No, nothing bad happened. Just something insanely good. But sudden, very sudden. It was the classic story about a boy meeting a girl and it ended the same as ever. With a botched love story and two and a half broken hearts, him, me and his cat.

It has been a month or so, but it feels like only a minute ago. The over-the-shoulder look you gave me could've gone on the cover of a magazine. It was the picture perfect moment that should’ve been put up on your instagram. I would've taken the photo for you, only I was too busy wiping away my tears.

I saw the sword before I saw the person that held it. I had always known something like this would happen, and yet it still came as a surprise to me.

It was still dark all around me, but I finally wasn’t scared anymore. I did my breathing techniques for more than 20 minutes before my heart finally slowed down.

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Right now my life is a mess, thought Joy to herself. Her mother didn’t think she had a purpose in life and had spiraled into a depression, her father had found his purpose in a 26-year-old hippie and had devoted his life to being a child.

It was a dark summer morning. Normally around this time of year the sun had fully come out of her winter shell. I walk outside and try to spot a little ray of sunshine somewhere, but no such luck. It’s just me and a grey day.

I followed my passion. It was kind of a weird feeling. The first time that I went down a waterslide. I decided that I would try the fastest one first. Pretty bad decision, but it makes for a good story now.

In een oogwenk was ik bij haar. Ze keek me met grote ogen aan. Ze was bang. Diezelfde angst moest ze in mijn ogen ook zien.

Copenhagen, November of 2021. Or as the Danish spell it: København. But I still don’t really know how to pronounce that, so we’re sticking with the English spelling. What a city…

When Alex slowly opened his eyes he saw his white ceiling, exactly how it was when he went to bed. He shoved his duvet to the other side of the bed and slid into his slippers that were put neatly next to the bed. He walked over to the bathroom and splashed some water in his face. It was always the first thing he did in the morning, he found that when he didn’t he would feel like he wasn’t really awake all day. With a dripping face he looked at himself in the mirror. This was his face.

Op de tafel staan de kaarsen langzaam op te branden. Niemand besteed er echt aandacht aan. De vlammen verschroeien langzaam maar zeker het lichaam totdat het licht uit het niets dooft.