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LJ Idol Season 10, Week 14
ReignitionMarjorie had gotten up from her comfy seat in the well-adorned living room. A smell of fire, burning wood and other materials she could not identify had dragged her to the window. She adjusted her glasses and rubbed her aching back. It was a quiet afternoon, a little too quiet for her own taste and a part of her really welcomed the ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Season 10, Week 13
They dropped me off like a package. There was an iron gate, looking at least like 150 years old. When I pulled it, it went open with a loud creak. Around the cold iron, twines must have been climbing for quite a long time. They whistled in the soft wind when I closed the gate behind me. Only then, the vehicle left, obviously making sure I would ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 12 Entry
July 1999
She entered the yellow phone box in the evening hours and retrieved a 5 Deutsche Mark coin from her small wallet. She picked up the receiver and inserted the coin into the slot to call the friend, her friend with the blonde hair, blue eyes, tanned skin and spotless clothes. The friend everybody said was not really her friend for what she ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 11 topic: The blue hour
They had been inside the meeting room for several hours, in fact, for almost the entire day. Matt, the programmer, was sitting at his desk, pretending everything was just fine, like it was any other day. But it wasn’t any other day and Matt knew what was going on behind the wooden door.
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LJ Idol Week 10 entry: Take a hike!
When things between me and Ivan were still as fresh as the paint on a newly renovated house he surprisingly asked me to spend a weekend in the mountains with him and two friends of his. First, I was hesitant. We had been dating for a few months and only recently became aware that this thing we had was more serious than a usual temporary romance.
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LJ Idol Week 9 Topic: The Trolley Problem
It was one of these mornings when Louise thought it was a pretty usual start to the day. Ethan, her husband, was frantically looking for his tie and left shoe while he sipped coffee from his favourite cup. Adrian, their 13 year old son showed everyone how much he disliked morning time by hiding his head and face under his oversize hoodie. The ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 8 entry: No comment
I turned left at the driveway to Eastham Robotics, the company where I had been working for almost 5 years. Recently I had gotten my driver’s licence and got myself a car. Before you expect a shiny new, black Porsche or a silver Mercedes: My new car is a 1994 Fiat, blue, with a radio from the dinosaur age and no steering support. The latter means ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 6 Entry
I was never the one to claim anything I desired as a basic right of mine. Part of me sometimes wished I was like those women in the movies, with black hair and red lipstick who were depicted as beautiful splinters broken off from the mountain of evil. They never got no as an answer and they never felt bad because of all the people they made burst ( Read more... ) -
LJ Idol Week 5 topic: Fear is the heart of love
The room is crowded with girls in black hair. They are my Uruguayan friends and have invited me to their living room tonight. Some are watching TV, some sit on the floor and some on various sofa. I am sitting on the sofa as well braiding the hair of one of the girls. She offers me 5 Euros as a payment, which I politely refuse. “I will leave it here ( Read more... )
