DB Wanderer

Short Stories @shortshortstori · May 7, 2019… Sunny dawn, I decide to walk to the train station instead of taking the bus. On the way, a young woman is stranded, trying unsuccessfully to get her bicycle chain back on. I hesitate... come on! I go over, and together, we get the chain back on. She drives off with a wave, and I jump on to the train. 

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Nov 9, 2017… Old school: grey-headed man on a commuter train opens his well-worn brown leather briefcase. It is empty, but for a series of folded articles torn out of medical journals; his analog "read later" folder. He methodically reads one after another. Everyone else swipes their news away. 

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Sep 14, 2017… Who needs coffee? 6 am, watching one commuter after another rush down the stairs racing to train's closing doors. Guaranteed adrenaline rush. 

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Sep 14, 2017… A young man wears a neon vest covered in badges and shiny metals and carries a toot bag with "I'd rather BE crazy than BE one of you" on it.

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Apr 6, 2017… Young management type fellow stands on the commuter train platform, trying to look cool, holding a tray of golden-covered Easter bunnies.

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Jan 15, 2017… A nun in a heavy black habit strolls along a wintery pathway. A group of horses grazing in the nearby field lift their heads as she passes.

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Oct 31, 2014… Late autumn fields and cloud-strewn skies are crowded with flocks of storks finding their way to Northern Africa. Wanderlust. Magical.

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Jul 27, 2013… 40-something-ish manager of a Tai massage salon goes wild at a concert of an AD/DC cover band. Loud trip back into his rowdy Berliner youth.

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Feb 22, 2011… Train trip to Berlin. Two white geese standing in a snow-covered field with a slash of black earth showing where a tractor wheel drove by.

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Apr 11, 2010… The look of enchantment on the small girl's face sitting next to me as she watched the film Nanny McPhee would have made Emma Thompson glad.

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Nov 20, 2009… Lady with wool hat had hair horns sticking out both sides of her head through the crochet holes of her hat. I found it hard not to smile.

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Oct 26, 2009… Sat on the train across from a fellow who was walking the fine line between Crocodile Dundee, Nero in Matrix, and G.I. Joe. Difficult mix.

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Oct 14, 2009… Old woman wearing a rainbow-coloured linen jacket and fisherman rubber boots, patiently plants sprouting onions in amongst her rose garden.

Short Stories @shortshortstori · Jun 24, 2009… Long summer days in the northern Baltic. It is almost ten at night and all is bright and light egg blue. Rejoice. Rejoice.