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These are selected stories that describe my most unsual experience.

September 4, 2021

The Sorrows of the Old Reader

The anticipation

I’ve recently been reading the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther written by Goethe in the XVIII th century. What’s interesting to know is that the story is directly based on the author’s own experience, it was written shortly after the events described in the novel. The novel is a series of letters which the narrator sends to a mysterious friend. The friend’s replies remain unknown throughout the whole story.

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July 28, 2021

Moon Lake

My name is Christian Zülher. I work as a sales representative for a German book publishing company. My schedule had me travel to this remote village in order to sell books to the local library. Needless to say that the business won’t be floroushing for our company thanks to this trip, indeed the mayor left me with the impression that providing his village with books and knowledge wasn’t his top priority. Exhausted after such a demanding trip and negociations, I had dinner in the hotel I was staying the night. The hotel was a classic one, one of those you find everywhere on the Czech countryside. It was clean and the food was tasteful, but a traveling salesman gets used to eating the nicest dishes.

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June 16, 2021

Babylon

The city of Sacred-Heart has a particular urban organization. At the center of the city, a huge composite building, Babylon, was erected on what used to be an emerald-colored hill in ancient times. Babylon was made up of a pile of constructions built progressively at different times of human history. Thus many different architectures coexist - baroque, industrial, gothic, neoclassical, etc. It spans over such an extended area that Babylon could be seen as a city of its own. In fact, people from Babylon never interacts with people from outside the tower. All around Babylon, an endless area of miserable buildings and shacks was divided into multiple districts. This destitute area is where the vast majority of the population lives. My name is Canau Ghyn and this where I live. Today, I’m over 80 years old but I’ve never left the place where I was born but once, the District Nine which is notorious for being the highest ranking district among all.

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May 20, 2021

My Truth

“Citizens of the United States of Europe, today is a historical day that will be remembered! You may already know that lately has been a really hard period of my life, particularly when I decided to resign from my position as the president of the Federation. Countless newspapers and journalists in the media have been conducting an unfair campaign against me ever since. Not only are they not satisfied with destroying my personal reputation, I am regularly harassed every time I’m out to sponsor a charity. Days hardly get by without hearing about the latest scandal about Christian Zhu and his allegedly corrupted friends. So much that the controversy has become one of the hottest topics of discussion between colleagues and friends, separating those who support Christian’s legacy and those who think that the man was too white to be true.

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May 6, 2021

Past Election

The first one, Snow, has appeared as the strongest and most independent of all three characters since she benefited from a reputation of being a good student who also dedicated her free time helping others. However, looks are deceiving. People fail to realize that Snow struggles with issues within her peculiar family, in spite of being a rich and loving one.

While Snow’s popularity at school is one that any would wish for, Eight could be considered as one of the most despised students in the whole academy - people say that he is weird and unfriendly thos that tries to talk to him. Eight not only refuses to open himself to others, but he also repells the unlucky benefactors who try to become his friend. Thus people often regard him as someone who lives secluded inside his own mind and doesn’t want to make any effort to understand others. As a matter of fact, Eight might be the one who is paying the most attention around him, which he finds exhausting. What he is the most afraid of is to disapoint people. So, in order to avoid losing his temper while interacting with people, Eight took the habit of pushing people off so that he won’t disapoint anyone.

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April 26, 2021

Being Constant

What drives people to flock altogether and partake in social interactions? It was once said that humans are social creatures, meaning it is in their very nature to seek and interact with other human beings. As for myself, I’ve been living deep in a secluded wood on an island for the past two decades now. In spite of being locked down in one of the most remote places on the planet, I desperately need to tell myself regularly that I was productive enough during last weekend.

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April 21, 2021

Trip to the Island

“This is my last wish, please let me die as a true warrior who fought with pride alongside his comrades.”

These were the last words that I spoke before the girl, whom my teammates and I were ordered to kidnap, delivered the fatal blow. She slowly lifted my sword and cleanly slit my throat open. Streams of blood started flowing vigorously. It was a sunny day and the wood where I laid seemed almost peaceful if it weren’t for the small scarlet pond that had my hair drenched little by little. A few moments later, the stream of blood started slowing down. But I wasn’t there anymore to observe this because I had already left this world.

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March 25, 2021

As I watched over Them

I have been tailing this person for some time now. Last month, the Syndicate issued an order to track a new target. As low ranking members of the organization, we aren’t usually told very much about the reason why they need to approach targets. Sometimes, they need to get rid of someone. Sometimes, they kidnap the target and leverage her for blackmailing.

Whatever the reason is, I’ve only ever executed orders without asking any question. Contractors, like me, only do what is rational and what can help me to fulfill my contract. So when the cat came to explain the next mission, I accepted the orders with neither sadness nor hapiness. Tailing people and collecting information is what I do.

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January 19, 2021

Heart-to-Heart Conversation

What defines reality? This endless question has been treated by countless philosphers and thinkers ever since the dawn of time. Some have argued that you will never know what it is because humans are bound by their bodies to grasp reality through their senses. If these senses are essential for us to get to know our environment and effectively undertake this task mostly, sometimes they can be deceitful.

Once again I gave a few thoughts on this matter yesterday, after I visited a twisted person whose mind was possessed by a terrifying madness. This person has been living in a psychatric facility for a year. And his delusion is so intense that he firmly believes to be living in an abandonned city where he is asked to participate in deadly games with strangers. I’ve been regularly visiting him as a member of the volunteer association over the past few months. For some reason, what initially felt like a chore gradually became a moment I came to look forward to every week. Despite this person being a lunatic, I perceived something that I lacked in this mad person. When I arrived, he greeted me in this manner:

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January 18, 2021

A Mansion full of Gags

How is that a most beautiful young woman lives in an evil mansion known for hosting unspeakable monsters? This question, sir, is not the one I will answer. Instead, I’ll answer why you should pack you bags and move into that mansion full of monsters as soon as possible.

Story 5/10

There isn’t really a story per se because Magetsukan Kitan is a succession of small episodes which are funny for the most part. So despite the fair number of chapters, there is very little progression over the course of 47 chapters. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that Magetsukan Kitan is boring. I absolutely enjoyed reading how the main character makes the acquaintance of the notorious members of this mansion in hilarious stories.

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