Creative Writing Submissions (Short Stories) ZfS Uni Freiburg SS 2010:

The Kernel of the Brute (Thilo Bronnenmeyer): The Devil smiled and said, ‘After all that’s what the Apocalypse is about, isn’t it?’

The Willow Chair (Alexander Bühler): A real page turner: ‘I burnt the witch, I burnt the witch!’..

Short Story, No Title (Dayal Smaran): Students on the run in Shey. Fast pace and good dialogue..

The Thief of the Worlds (Kaya Dohrn): Great idea bringing fantasy into reality…

Till Death Do Us Part (Tino Falke): A modern vampire story, good description..

Night Shift (Christian Goltsche): Th Sri Lankan with roses in his hand smiled and said, ‘Take a rose. Give it to your girlfriend..’

Cherry-red Blueberries (Felix Hoffmann): A writer who’s in command of his story. The suspense grows and he’s got the reader hooked. The story has an open end. The inevitable after a climax culiminating in separation, death or flight? Your guess is just as good as mine.

Encounters (Janine-Sophie Kemming): Thought-provoking encounters: Leila, Tim, Lisbeth, Maya, Maria, Dear Dave, On encounters.

Still Dreaming (Sarah Link). ..used the stream of consciousness method and was in control of the story..

And Out Come the Wolves (Daniel Schäuffele): Daniel’s page turner: ‘My mind is running. My daughter, my mother, the people I killed..

Somewhere in Namibia (Edith Schnapper): A wonderful story. ‘..her beautiful face was the symbol of a western world that was rejecting him. Now she was gone forever.’

Do You Remember? (Cora Alisa Schomberg): ‘There will be no more pain, only silence. Maybe I’ll see you again, down there in the darkness..’

The World Cup (Sonja Schult): Microstories on: The World Cup, the Crowd, Mysteries, Uncovered, The Trip to Spain and Thinking. Good imagery..

Esperanza (Samira Shauna Strauß): ‘I think you won’t be needing these today’..I was confused. I had never been allowed to skip my medication..’

The Journey of the Mind (Anna Carolina Stylianopoulou): Excellent story-telling using flashbacks. Never a dull moment. Has plot, pace and everything.

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I’d like to thank you for the submissions. It was a pleasure to read the microstories and short stories and to know that a transfer of knowledge had taken place. I’d like to wish you all writers success in your endeavours after the Bachelor’s in Anglistik and Amerikanistik, Philosophy and other subjects. Keep on writing and reading and vice versa.