Micro (one-minute stories)
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
15. Kennedy
03 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes what we remember from our childhood is confused with the stories other people tell us. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTI remem...
14. Airport
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You loved each other for a month, then he had to fly back to Melbourne. In days when you could only write letters and, very very rarely, place extra-c...
13. Hands
20 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When she travels alone on a tram, sometimes she is taken by a sudden notion.A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTI envy all those women sitti...
12. Flat
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When I moved from Melbourne to Italy I was faced with a difficult decision: take my cat Ombra with me, submitting her to a gruelling 26-hour flight an...
11. Delivery
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I met Amelia at an Italian feminist group in Berlin: young Italian women having the time of their lives free from families and judgments. Amelia came ...
10. Expat
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The word 'expat' brings to mind lattes, laptops and wi-fi. But that's not the full story. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTWhite, western...
9. (East) Berlin
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Walking through East Berlin was never just a stroll, before the Wall came down. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTBack then I only had thi...
8. Instructions
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are unwritten rules that people are supposed to know without anyone ever telling them what they are and how they work. A micro narration in a mi...
7. Braunau
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I arrived at Braunau that I had just graduated with a thesis on German exile literature during the twelve years of the dictatorship, so you can apprec...
6. Amplifier
01 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes an object out of place becomes the only thing in place. A very small narration, hardly a story. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRI...
5. Charitable
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Another true story: a group of ladies go out of their way to be charitable with a young mother. A micro narration in a minute or so.(If you'd like a l...
4. Bug
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
True story, it happened to me in Goa, while living in a fisher's hut in Calangute. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTSomewhere I read that...
3. Childhood
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When adults use children as a pawn. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTShe has given me a letter. To give him. And she wants me to ask him ...
2. War
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a true story. My dear friend M. told this to me one day in the office, at lunch time, and it has been haunting me since. Thank you M. for givi...
1. Drowning
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You know how they say that your life flashes in front of your eyes? Well, that's not always the case. A micro narration in a minute or so.TRANSCRIPTD...