Some of Us are Real
“I had to arrange everything in a tesseract of cause and effect and vice versa,” she hears Frankenstein’s voice, godlike, emanating from all corners, “to make sense of all of it. To help your mind to navigate and understand it, a three-dimensional tesseract represented by a hallway with doors and rooms.”
A lonely drifter travels to Japan to work on the book he is writing. His novel remains unwritten as he tries to find distraction in the neon-dreamscape of Tokyo, eats till he drops in Osaka, looks for serenity in Nara, and follows the footsteps of the famous writers who have visited Onomichi before him. He is always looking for that one special moment, a moment of perfection, full of fear he might miss it if he takes a wrong turn. His story is interspersed with short stories focusing on other people, presenting a maelstrom of voices that encompasses the past, present, and future of humanity.
Some of Us are Real is a madcap re-imagination of the classic Odyssey-myth, a tale full of wicked humour, surrealism, magic and gritty realism. There are no Greek monsters in this story, but only FOMO-sirens, existentialist-dread-cyclopes and anxiety-leviathans. Some of Us are Real is a novel about the human condition, in all of its terrifying beauty.
The novel does not belong to a single genre, yet it plays with the rules of genre-fiction. There are elements of science fiction, romance, and surrealism inside. There are splashes of post-modernism, theatre and magic realism. Reading it will confuse readers, will make them angry, but will also delight them. It will give them hope that there is something that can bring us together as human beings.
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The Stage Plays
of Alexander P. Sigrist
“To tell these things, it sometimes feels like you need to close your eyes. Otherwise the fear that the world is a dark and strange place might overwhelm you and make you unable to tell anything at all. Of course, the world is not a dark and strange place and our fears overcome us anyway at some point, whether we close our eyes or not.”
Close your Eyes, Tell a Story
It is either fate or irony that brought Helen to this post office. It could be fate because she is looking for the owner of a letter wrongly delivered to her address, assuming that this person has gotten a letter for her. It could be irony because she is looking for her future in a place that itself has no future. Yes, the post office is about to close. Forever. It is here, in this place of too many yesterdays and too little tomorrows, that she meets Kerry, the caretaker.
Coming Back to Me // Let Me Go
1984, a city, a bar. Four friends share a drink or two to celebrate a new beginning in their lives. They get drunk, they sing, they laugh and they enjoy the highs and the lows of their friendship.
Today, a city, three different apartments and one moment in time: A young man called Hope comes home with the fixed intent to die. Two stray lovers who have never met before try to see beyond each other’s shallowness. Three friends have a quiet evening in, trying to lock all the bad things out.
A World Without
When July gets Cody‘s text, she knows their relationship is about to hit a wall. Deeply upset, but too tough to admit it, she tries to figure out how to change the world and joins the occupy movement, much against the advice of her best friend Helen. Neil, at the other end of town, has different problems. Having returned from his father‘s funeral and just as he is helping his sister, Sam, off to New York, he gets an assignment to write a PR proposal, which might really change the world.
And This Will Be Our Last Song for Tonight
And This Will be Our Last Song for Tonight is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, set in the present time in a bar somewhere in the middle of nowhere. It is a comedy filled with banter and slightly absurd scenes, but with a honest question at its core: What is the nature of love? And is there such a thing as love at first sight?
Above the Water
Seven people: A doe-eyed actor/actress, a control-freak, a lazy couch-potato, a serious lawyer-to-be, an honest friend, a down-to-earth store manager and a hopeless spaghetti cook share an apartment and face rising tensions as the control-freak and the couch-dweller go head-to-head over the question of cleanliness. At the same time, the apartment is running out of money and the flatmates decide to rent out a spare room. They find a new flatmate in Snow.
A Storm Louder than Everyone Else
A rainy day in a pub at the edge of the sea. The rain keeps coming harder, the waves getting bigger. Pete, a lone traveller, seeks shelter in the pub, where he meets Mikka, the headstrong patron. They are joined by Bjorn, a stubborn fisherman, as well as Lara and Max, a young couple whose relationship is on the brink of falling apart. Soon, the storm locks them in the pub and they have to find a way to survive the night.