And while giving my answers, I promote some of my work — I actively use my reading list to save articles and I read several of those almost every evening — anything between five or ten creations of other writers. It was on one of those evenings that I clicked on articles written by Nevena Pascaleva and Yana Bostongirl and the coincidence…

The home for all fictional and non-fictional stories of five chapters or more (last update: 19.03.2023) — As many of you might have noticed, once a week I post a chapter of the series, Thirteen Years. I publish that series on ‘Serial Stories’, a publication I created a couple of months ago. Why Serial Stories? I used to post the chapters for Thirteen Years with a different publication, but there…

Finding your way through my ever-growing content — I started publishing stories on Medium in February 2021, and with my ever-growing content, those stories needed some kind of index. Except for the lists below, you can also find me here: Twitter Visit the Blogable Club, a site about writing and blogging and which I run together with my…

He breathed in deep, allowing her delicious aroma to tease his nostrils — Damian walked quietly into the dark bedroom, careful not to disturb his wife, who had gone upstairs an hour earlier because she was tired. He heard her soft, regular breathing, a telltale sign she was asleep already. Quietly, he pulled off his clothes and slipped into bed next to Jody. …

She always had everything under control — until she didn’t — Monica graduated top of her class when she trained to be an executive secretary. She always had a perfect score in typing, knew the ins and outs of maintaining an agenda, and her shorthand was better than any other trainee the school had ever seen. On top of all that…

Shadows Of Mayday #18: Joe and Mattie #2: Neither of them wanted to wait to tell the other about their feelings — Start reading here Series: Shadows of Mayday Several personal stories of people boarding the same plane, which crashed in the Namib desert on the coast of Namibia…marierebelle.medium.com “So, you want a table?” he asked. “Yes, I want a small table where I can have my meals,” Mattie answered.

I always wonder about the meaning of my dreams, but never try to analyze them myself — When a dream stays with me for days, sometimes weeks, I try to make sense of it. I shared my last disturbing dream with my daughter. He Wanted Me To Kill Myself By Lethal Injection Writing about a dream, I recognized some of my daily life in itmedium.com She listened with interest, and then surprised me when she said: “Okay, let’s see if I can analyze your dream for you.”

When all you know is fight or flight, red flags and butterflies all feel the same ~ Cindy Cherie — A colleague tipped me to listen to the books It Ends With Us and It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover (review to follow). That’s the order of the books, and I found it strange that the end is before the start. …

Reading has been part of my life for as long as I can remember, and some of my favorite settings make it into my writing — When I was a pre-teen, and way into my teen years, I read one book after the other. So many times my father called me to come outside, and I called back from my room, where I lay stretched out on my bed: “When I’m done with this page.” And…