Telling Stories

Recently a good friend from Germany called me and invited me to write a series of short stories in the tradition of Latin-American magic realism. He now works for a German online-magazine for literature and remembered that, more than 15 years ago, I used to write stories and publish them in my (now extinct) weblog and different magazines.
I resisted at first because it's been ages since I've written anything creative in German. But then the idea began to appeal to me: I've always loved magic realism, especially Julio Cortázar. And I'd be totally free to create whatever I wanted within that genre. 

When I write a story I always start with a image (mental or physical, like a photograph). While I compose that image, the story begins to develop, and the plot unfolds. Isabella and I spent more than an hour arranging and composing today's blip. Post-production took another hour or two, and it was Isabella who insisted on the dark feel of it. The story that developed from here will be published next week. I will inform the link for the German-speaking readers as soon as it is available.

There weren't many contributions to last week's Experimental Photography Challenge. Therefore, there won't be any honorable mentions this week, only hearts, and these go to:

jinglyan
JonRayner
Cheeryoscuro
Hanulli
and
Arachne

This week's Experimental Photography Challenge (EP7) is "Portraits"!