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Werner Schmidt – Award-nominated Author and Storyteller
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Micro-story Videos & Blog Posts
We love stories because we are stories.
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[Books, Micro-story #13] A Story of Stories
From my collection: Death by Design Have I told you how every life is the stuff of a best-seller novel series? How every single one of us is the co-writer and main character of our stories? How every life is a story cell within the big story body, you know, the story...
[Books, Micro-story #12] One day, when I’m dead
A micro-story, containing something akin to the author’s living will, including soundtrack, coffin shape and other lighthearted topics …
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[Books, Micro-Story #11] If This Life
A micro-story: An ordinary suburban fairy tale featuring the shopping mall, museum, prison, time, garden, toys and a volcano …
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[Books, Micro-story #10] Treasure
A micro-story: Let us notice the treasures right in front of us …
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[Books, Micro-story #9] To All The Girls
A 2-minute micro-story:
Celebrating all the girls in a moment of absent-mindedness …
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[Books, Micro-story #8] Dark Clarity
A 2-minute micro-story:
The use of metaphor helped when my Monstro Gepetto’d me …
What has helped you during moments of depression?
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[Books, Micro-story #7] A Bird Man Moves
A micro-story about a suburban bird man who continued feeding his late wife’s garden birds …
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[Books, Micro-story #6] South Africans Love Them
Micro-stories about grass-roots South Africans, in concert with poetic slogans painted on their minibuses by some creative South African taxi drivers …
[Books, Micro-story #5] Sea Spot Run
Imagining the evolution of the seal.
[Books, Micro-story #4] Mystic Berry
Anecdotes about the origins of coffee, building up to my next cuppa joe … Hello, Darkness, my old friend.