Ghosts to Carry, Stories to Keep
Where memory meets the page, one moment at a time.
recent posts
about
Tag: True Stories
-

Nothing must happen to them.
-

I’d safely been in Poland for perhaps five minutes, and a cardboard caricature of my past career had already beaten me to the job.
-

For a dear and special friend — who steadied the moment, translated the chaos, and answered the phone as if she’d been waiting for it. I’d been living in Silesia for only a few weeks, and it was the first time I felt truly out of place — I was tired that night. A bit…
-

A remarkable journey, unhurried, moving at a speed allowed by the weather conditions outside.
-

Everything gleamed. Everything moved. Everything repeated itself with mechanical certainty. For the first twenty minutes, I tried to follow the guide’s explanations. After that, I simply drifted, nodding at intervals, trying not to look like a man who had lost all sense of time.