Day: December 28, 2021

How to catch a spider

(without burning down the house) I remember reading a story a few years ago about a man who was so afraid of spiders that in order to kill one, he burned down his own house. When I think of the response of most Western governments to the pandemic, that story comes back to my mind….

Scenes from 2030

The following was a text written for “Off-Guardian” almost a year ago as a satirical piece, but since then most of it has come to pass, except (so far) for the brain implants. “Hi, dude!” “Oh. Hi. How are you?” “I’m good. How do you like my shoes?”  “Nice. Are those…”  “Yeah. The original Nike…

Der Impfpass

A Kafkian Short Story Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested. His landlady, Frau Grubach, had a cook who brought him breakfast each day around eight, but this time she didn’t appear. Instead, there were two gentlemen in dark grey clothes standing by the…