[Books, Micro-story #7] A Bird Man Moves

by Werner Schmidt | Jul 14, 2021 | Books, Micro-story Videos

Between 5 and 6 am, summertime. We walked and smelled freshness as the sun wanted us to, when a shout rang out from behind me. “Dove, dove!” my little backpack yelled. I turned. An audience of feathers high around a suburban amphitheater waited above the old man, with...

[Books, Micro-story #6] South Africans Love Them

by Werner Schmidt | Jul 9, 2021 | Books, Micro-story Videos

A deep rural single mother keeps on keeping on. Loses husband, loses livelihood. Keeps on keeping on. TAXI SAYS: WHEN DAYS ARE DARK FRIENDS ARE FEW Working girl, cornered by a baby on her back. An African sun blazes down. She flashes her shocking pink studded business...

[Books, Micro-story #5] Sea Spot Run

by Werner Schmidt | Jul 4, 2021 | Books, Micro-story Videos

You appear to be a cut and paste concoction of black mermaid’s tail with the chest and face of a dripping, ebony otter-like dog. Whose imagination and sense of humour hound you like this? Have you always been a bit of both or were you struck by the spell of an angry...

[Books, Micro-story #4] Mystic Berry

by Werner Schmidt | Jul 4, 2021 | Books, Micro-story Videos

 A fasting Yemeni Sufi mystic ate berries in the year 1230 after noting birds bubbling around the sun and back. Eager for their gummy berry juice, his eyes became crystals as enlightened taste buds painted his way. An exiled Mochan healer roasted berries seven hundred...

[Books, Micro-story #3] Stuck On You

by Werner Schmidt | Jul 4, 2021 | Books, Micro-story Videos

Steam rises from my cupped hands. Sickle Moon dances on my black rooibos tea. Dirty, orange City Night Sky. Trying not to blink. What am I looking at? On a slow, hot summer afternoon we watched our little prince flash from his favourite branch and smack down onto...

[Books, Micro-story #2] Captain’s* Prologue

by Werner Schmidt | Jul 4, 2021 | Books, Micro-story Videos

A prologue is optional. A Captain’s* Prologue is mandatory if one wants to take one’s readers in orbits around this little universe, filled with strange interstellar stuff, but mostly space. You know – that nothing. This collection will never feel complete. Perhaps...