“This is your life, go grab it” I said to myself and proceeded to stand up and heave my brown leather suitcase from the top shelf of my closet. Inside I packed the bare necessities such as clothes, a toothbrush, money and my passport. Then I decided to pull out a black leatherbound notebook from the drawer next to my bed. They may have been agonisingly difficult to live with, and I would always ho...

“Faster Claudia faster.” My mind screeched as I sprinted as fast I possibly could thought the ceaseless ocean of pine trees. Along the floor tentacles of tree roots mocked my steps and threatened to wrap themselves around my ankles as I ran deeper into the forest. “You must not be caught again” I repeated over and over inside my own head. “You‘ve come too far to lose it all now.”

My lungs burned ...

“Pack your shit we’re leaving. This was never meant to be no goddamn honeymoon.” Roughly tossing my clothes at me from the wicker seat in the corner of the beach hut. Still half-asleep, I bolt upright, pulling the light cotton sheets up to my chin to cover my still naked body and hurriedly gathering my clothes from the bed in front of me.

As I frantically pulled on my my clothes, Klaus sat starin...

Above me the clouds swirled in the azure sky, the sun beaming down into my squinting eyes, as though in mockery of my utter stupidity. Below my heaving body, the unruly grass, damp with morning dew, cooled my now feverish skin. So I thought, this is death. This is the sweet release so often painted in the poetry of great artists. “Do die is to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream” that was what Shak...