Time to Listen
A good story

As a child in Romania, Herta Müller was to get a new winter coat. One with collar and cuffs made of fox fur. While choosing the fox fur she noticed the similarity between fox and hunter. The secret service later followed her into her apartment and left signs.

A trip with the family, a house in the forest. The marinated chickens sizzle on the campfire - attracting unexpected visitors. T. C. Boyle tells a story with a surprising twist that shows that even in the worst situations there can still be redemption.  

No longer bothered by her travel companion, Sally Shlalabi decided to finally eat street food on a trip to Thailand 15 years ago. On her search for more of the delicious dishes she meets a fortune teller. She pays him and holds out her hands, still smeared by the food. He makes her a prophecy for life...

As a child Kristina Tóth grew up in a high-rise housing estate built in a suburb of Budapest - the first high-rise housing estate in Hungary, with over 100,000 inhabitants. In the 5th grade she was supposed to bring a petunia to biology classes. An ordinary flower, but one that was hard to find in the satellite city. Then the mother had an idea...

As a child, Sergio Blanco hated everything about the school. The rooms, the idea of the school itself: having to learn "the rules", "the norms". He also hated the teachers and decided - spurred on by images from literature - to poison the teacher he hated most.​

A woman tries to explain to her daughter why the father is acting so recklessly. "He fights with his phantoms." They hide in his cell phone and send messages to him...

The narrator remembers his childhood, when his mother sent him to beg and told him to turn away debtors. An experience that recurs in his dreams to this day. With which feelings does he look back? 

One day the playwright Marius Ivaškevičius received an inquiry from an autonomous republic in southern Siberia, unknown to him: He was to become the national playwright of Khakassia. He refused - but he had not expected the persistence of the Khakassas...

In her school days, Alissa Ganieva one day discovered a kind of balcony under the window of her classroom. Realizing that the others had never noticed it, she bet she would throw herself out the window. And she did, with different consequences than she had foreseen.

During his student days Jordi Puntí rented an apartment with friends in Barcelona. The landlord kept the key to a windowless room, which the friends were not allowed to enter. The friends began to speculate: Was there a pornographic collection inside? Wasn't there a light coming from under the door? Was it a gateway to hell? What was the secret of the locked room?

Gali's mother came to Israel as an orphan from Bukovina, where she had used her sewing skills to ensure the survival of herself and her brother. The girl is ashamed of her mother, because she is not a native Israeli. Despite mother's help, Gali fails the sewing course at school.

19-year-old Simon sails for a year on a small ship with a friend and his father through the Mediterranean, along the French and Spanish coasts. Despite a shipwreck, they decide to continue without an engine, just like in the old days.

Actually, Edwige Renée Dro wanted to submit a factual text to this project. But unpredictable as these times are, she had another inspiration - and tells a story about an object playing the leading role, which probably only few would call "God".

Catherine is married off to the sultan by her father, the Czar. She is his 99th wife and right after their wedding the sultan forgets her. At a disco organized by the Sultan the musicians are blindfolded. Suddenly the blindfold of the handsome guitarist slips and the story takes its course...

As a visual artist in New York, Hallgrímur Helgason one day receives a visit from a fellow Icelander who becomes increasingly drunk during the course of the evening. During dinner a very revealing error occurs.

Based on a true story A: As she got out of the taxi, Roberta Estrela D'Alva dropped her cell phone into a sewer. It disappeared into the sewer with all her phone numbers, numbers, notes. There was no backup copy of any of this. She was about to ask for a miracle when she met her neighbour and complained to him about her suffering. The next morning, the neighbour rang to tell and show her something.