Benedikt Eickhoff

Album Published 19/05/2022

At home we put our dirty shoes outside (5 new items)

At home we put our dirty shoes outside. We only drink water from the tap. We don't eat dinner in front of the TV. We wash our hands before we eat. We eat at the table. We don't have "playdates" with friends. We play outside, not inside. We go to the p…

Album Published 19/05/2022

Dad wanted to visit Tuchos Rheinsberg (6 new items)

Dad wanted to visit Tucho's Rheinsberg. I was the only one who was interested. In the taxi, he kept repeating that I would have to be a brave boy, since we would never know what the place was like. I said, "How do you know I won't just run away?" "No…

Album Published 18/05/2022

Let's first try finding proper masks (9 new items)

Let's first try finding proper masks to cover our wound. "I'll go and get some." "No, no, no," I said. "I'll go." "You'll be fine," he said. "I'll be right back." I was still sitting on the bed, and I looked around for something to use as a bandage. …

Album Published 16/05/2022

Ma's was metamorph (2 new items)

Ma's was metamorph. She was with her flowers. I'd just returned to my cottage, my step became lighter, when I found a letter from someone called Bartram; he wanted me to give his mother a message from him. I went and found her outside, in the veranda.…

Album Published 16/05/2022

Some sort of memory built up (2 new items)

Some sort of memory built up. Ma said we're on track. I don't want to know. I'm going to be a baby for a while. I don't think she wants me to know, either. I was going to ask if I could help, but I guess she doesn't want that. She's going to be in cha…

Album Published 15/05/2022

Ma's was metamorph (7 new items)

Album Published 14/05/2022

Some sort of memory built up (6 new items)

Album Published 12/05/2022

I felt my part would be more of an intellectual (6 new items)

I felt my part would be more of an intellectual. I was a smart kid. I read a lot. I was a writer, too. I wrote articles for the school newspaper. I wrote a series of poems about my mother, who was dying of cancer. I took my mother out for a drive. The…

Album Published 12/05/2022

When we leave the cave (4 new items)

Ma said "...when we leave the cave they think we're priests." "No, I'm just a tourist," I say. "You're not a tourist," says Dad. "You are a man of the great city." "You're a tourist," says Ma. "No, I'm not," I say. "Why don't you go with us to the moun…

Album Published 11/05/2022

Dad wanted to keep being recognizable (4 new items)

Dad wanted to keep being recognizable for friends and family. That meant no more scraggly beard, but no shave, either. He looked like a teenager in high school. "He was my first boy," Ma told me. "I would've done anything for him." Ma would do anythin…

Album Published 10/05/2022

Good old hide and seek (1 new item)

Good old hide and seek It's the perfect game for when you want to catch a break from bad weathers. The human mind has a curious habit of hiding things. Some of us hide things better than others. We hide from the police. We hide from our friends. We hi…

Album Published 08/05/2022

Good old hide and seek (2 new items)

Good old hide and seek It's the perfect game for when you want to catch a break from bad weathers. The human mind has a curious habit of hiding things. Some of us hide things better than others. We hide from the police. We hide from our friends. We hi…

Album Published 06/05/2022

We found poetry to be the one religion (2 new items)

We found poerty to be the one religion we could possibly share. It was a long time ago, but I remember the first time I saw a picture of a naked woman. I was in the second grade, and I was sitting in the back of the classroom, reading a book. I was eng…

Album Published 06/05/2022

We invited a friend to tell us more about fckfrg (5 new items)

We invited a friend to tell us more about FckFrg. What is FckFrg? FckFrg is a Frg word that means “fuck the Frg”. It is a tongue-in-cheek term used to describe a person who is anti-Frg, and has a strong dislike for the Frg culture. Also, FckFrg is a…