Chapter 13 — Freedom

He didn’t even see it at first, used as he was to every detail of this lounge, and when he finally noticed it, he thought…

Chapter 7 — Commitment

“Helmuth!” a voice resonated from behind with the stark intensity of a bullet.

Chapter 2 — Continuity

‘Of course!’ he mumbled and got up from the leather couch he’d been sleeping on, stretching a little to straighten his…

Chapter 4 — Wildlife

‘Oh, what’s the difference!’, he uttered morosely and headed for the panels on the wall, weighing his chances of ending up…

Chapter 3 — Framework

For a moment he forgot he was cold and wet and really could have used that cup of coffee he was anticipating and went…

Chapter 12 — Routine

People see life as a logical sequence of actions and consequences, inside which one makes plans for the foreseeable…

Chapter 11 — Roles

The soft lounge music penetrated his consciousness, seeping through the dream he was having, a strangely coherent story…

Chapter 8 — Projections

He took a few minutes to get settled, grabbed a sandwich from the refrigerator under the bar, and poured himself a drink. He was exhausted after the party he’d just left and grateful to have a quiet moment to himself.

Chapter 9 — Reality Check

The rules of chaos, a contradiction in terms, express themselves in poetry, express themselves in art, but they don’t waste their time trying to refashion the human mind, they sneakily bend around it, hiding behind truths, behind half-organized concepts, behind the things we take…

Chapter 1 — Sunlight

The room was large and not brightly lit, a feature that had obviously been designed to create a relaxing ambiance and induce a meditative state.

Its calming features worked in concert with the soft muzak tunes and the cozy leather chairs, whose generous width and…