We've updated our Content Guidelines.
Review the latest guidelines to keep sharing stories safely.
road_runner_1990's Leseliste
8 stories
The Game by AJ_adv
AJ_adv
  • WpView
    Reads 30
  • WpVote
    Votes 5
  • WpPart
    Parts 1
Topic: Responsibility, generational conflict, real vs. virtual morality Central motifs • Generational Conflict: Experience versus Aspiration • Virtual morality vs. real responsibility • Ingratitude as a matter of course • Work, care and invisibility of social burdens • The game as an escape - and as a mirror The game asks the uncomfortable question of how seriously we take responsibility - and where we are just simulating it. The story reflects a society in which demands are often louder than the awareness of who bears the foundations of our everyday lives. Without moralizing, but with great clarity, the text shows that real life knows no pause button. The narrative thrives on quiet intensity instead of escalation. Daniel is not a preacher, but a tired adult whose authority comes from experience. The story deliberately refrains from simple accusations and ends openly - with a silence that forces self-reflection.
In Concealment by AJ_adv
AJ_adv
  • WpView
    Reads 145
  • WpVote
    Votes 44
  • WpPart
    Parts 10
Daniel is inconspicuous. Reliable. Predictable. A man who is overlooked - and therefore never suspected. Outwardly, he lives a structured life between night shifts, routine and seemingly harmless encounters. But behind this façade lies a precise way of thinking, characterized by control, patience and a deep aversion to chaos. When a colleague is found brutally murdered, death shakes those around him - but Daniel remains calm. Too quiet. Because he knows: No one will associate him with the crime. While the investigation comes to nothing and suspicion disperses in all directions, Daniel begins to clean up his mind. People who disturb. People who hurt. People whose mere existence means disorder. He does not act out of anger - but out of conviction. At the same time, a fragile closeness to Andrea, an older woman with life experience, warmth and a sharp instinct, develops. It brings out something in Daniel that he has long suppressed: attachment. But closeness is dangerous. Feelings create mistakes. And mistakes bring light. When a second death calls the police to the scene again, the net slowly begins to close. A colleague suspects that there is more to the silent mask. The atmosphere becomes denser, the mistrust more palpable. Daniel comes under pressure - not from the outside, but from the inside. For the first time, his perfect order threatens to crack. What remains when control becomes an obsession? And how far can a person go to "cleanse" the world according to his own rules?
The avenger - there is no escape by AJ_adv
AJ_adv
  • WpView
    Reads 183
  • WpVote
    Votes 65
  • WpPart
    Parts 16
Angelo was only able to enjoy the time after early retirement to a limited extent. His work took Angelo to many places. The suffering and horror he experienced gave him many nightmares. His feelings were blown out of him during his training. Angelo's paths are paved with corpses when he takes on an assignment. No one could fill his inner emptiness. This was the reason why Angelo accepted his last three assignments and once again ventured into life-threatening situations. A small prospect to one day take on the somewhat more boring jobs and at least be able to leave.
Mission Toilet Paper by AJ_adv
AJ_adv
  • WpView
    Reads 18
  • WpVote
    Votes 4
  • WpPart
    Parts 1
Toilet paper is one of the everyday consumer goods and is used regularly by almost all households. However, the production of conventional toilet paper is often associated with a high consumption of resources. At the same time, sustainability, environmental protection and social responsibility are becoming increasingly important for consumers. Against this background, "Mission Toilet Paper" positions itself as food for thought that combines sustainable products with social or societal added value. The concept raises the question of the extent to which sustainable innovations in the field of everyday consumer goods can influence purchasing behaviour and contribute to environmental and social goals.
messed-up society by AJ_adv
AJ_adv
  • WpView
    Reads 7
  • WpVote
    Votes 4
  • WpPart
    Parts 1
In the story, Phillip, a 33-year-old man, deliberately withdraws from society because he is increasingly disappointed with people and the change in social values. He misses qualities such as honesty, respect, decency and compassion that he used to take for granted. In the seclusion of his house, he finds peace in nature and in dealing with animals, which he finds more sincere and honest than many people. When he can no longer bear the constant comments and looks of the villagers while shopping, he gives a passionate speech about the loss of humanity and the superficiality of modern society. He then returns to his quiet homeland, convinced that he finds more peace and honesty in nature than among people.
It's not real by rising_wolve2026
rising_wolve2026
  • WpView
    Reads 174
  • WpVote
    Votes 49
  • WpPart
    Parts 12
After the death of his mother, a time of emptiness begins for Daniel. The funeral is behind him, the apartment is quiet, life goes on. At least outwardly. Daniel functions. He does not mourn openly, speaks little, represses a lot. He believes that he has already survived the worst. But the night contradicts him. At first, it's just a whisper. Quietly. Unobtrusively. A voice under his window that sounds too familiar to be a coincidence. And too fake to seem real. It carries the sound of his mother, but without her warmth. Without memory. As if something had learned how she spoke without understanding what she was. Daniel knows that his mother is dead. Burned. Redeemed. And yet he hears her night after night. What could be dismissed as an acoustic hallucination slowly begins to eat into his life. The voice knows things that no one should know. Little things. Guilt. Thoughts that have never been spoken. It does not impose itself, does not ask for anything. It waits. Patiently. Scrutinizing. And with every listen, Daniel loses a piece of his inner boundary. Sleep becomes impossible, closeness unbearable, trust a risk. While Daniel becomes more and more rigid on the outside, something begins to shift inside. His relationship does not break down because of conflicts, but because of fear. Fear that someone will notice how motionless he lies there at night. How he counts breaths. How he can no longer distinguish which sounds belong to the house. And which have learned what a house sounds like.
In darkness lurks death by rising_wolve2026
rising_wolve2026
  • WpView
    Reads 176
  • WpVote
    Votes 49
  • WpPart
    Parts 12
Away from any road, far from the order of the world, lies a settlement of nineteen houses. Nineteen families who have left the light of civilization behind - out of a longing for peace, control, perhaps even redemption. What they found was something else: a state in which darkness is not the opposite of light, but its own breathing presence. Here the night is not a veil, but a hunter. As Daniel and Phillip go about their everyday lives between smokers, rituals and a strict sense of time, they suspect that their routines do not serve life, but something else. Something that wants to be fed. The closed courtyard, the black stove, the sweet smoke - everything seems to be part of a larger context that no one openly expresses. The women Lilith and Hekate watch over processes and boundaries, especially over that one border that must never be crossed: the sunset. Because as soon as the light fades, the land changes. The forest begins to listen. Paths lose their memory. Silence becomes heavy and meaningful. Those who stay too long are not persecuted - they are expected. With every night, the certainty grows that this community does not exist by chance. That victims are part of the order. And that the darkness does not come from the outside, but from the decisions that were once made here voluntarily.
At the grave of missed opportunities by rising_wolve2026
rising_wolve2026
  • WpView
    Reads 13
  • WpVote
    Votes 4
  • WpPart
    Parts 1
The narrative illustrates how painful unspoken feelings and missed opportunities can be. At the same time, it reminds us not to take life and the people who are important to us for granted. Courage, honesty and appreciation should not be postponed to a later date, as the future is uncertain.