A-Infos (en) Germany, AGDO: The apple & the tree trunk: Hagen Geyer - Escapism ---- CN => Loneliness - web => nature-of-the-machine.neocities.org (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Weekend / Smartphone / Power Outage ---- It was supposed to be my 
weekend escape, away from all expectations and the people who clung to 
them. At least, that's how it had started, when I threw my suitcase into 
the corner and collapsed onto the much too hard hotel bed. ---- For the 
first time in four months, I had fallen asleep without having to fight 
for every inch I hoped to drift into dreams. Now I opened my sticky eyes 
and groped helplessly for my smartphone, which had somehow slipped into 
the gap between the mattress and the bed frame. Clicking was 
unsuccessful; the screen remained dark. Annoyed, I tried again until I 
had a change of heart. It would only contain messages I didn't intend to 
answer anyway.

Instead, I reached for the switch of the bedside lamp. Only when that 
click also faded away without further effect did I notice the 
all-encompassing silence that threatened to engulf my ears and was only 
dispelled by the rushing of my blood.

A power outage, of all times. Cursing, I crawled out of bed and tripped 
over my suitcase on the way to the window. My hands got caught in the 
curtains, which threatened to wrap around me like cobwebs, but I managed 
to pull them apart instead of just pulling them down.

At first I thought there must be a blind darkening the window, but I 
couldn't feel anything, even when I grasped the handle and threw the 
window open. The cool night air brushed against my skin, my searching 
fingers, and carried a whiff of exhaust fumes into the small room.

"Hello?" I called out tentatively, but my cry was lost in the velvety 
black sky that had swallowed the stars, like a pillow swallowing the 
diamonds that had adorned it.

In blind panic, I fought my way back across the room, bumping into the 
wardrobe and then the doorknob, completely oblivious to the pain. For a 
breathless second, I thought I was trapped, then I staggered out into 
the empty hallway, my footsteps muffled by the heavy carpet.

Silence reigned here as well, and I began to realize that I was alone.

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