WINTER ' FOURTEEN
The Blue Box
by
Jürgen Olschewski
Late one night, Thomas Ruder receives a strange package: a small blue box. Another such item is delivered
to Liselotte Hauptmann. These ‘gifts’ will change their lives forever.
The Blue Box is a story about identity, about fulfilling your dreams, and becoming the person you always were,
at whatever cost.
It is a story of journeys, both external and internal.
In the far-off border town of Grenze, a play is to be performed at the Sheol Theatre. Reynard the impresario expects
a very special audience. Thomas, Liselotte, and their friend Johann, are drawn into Reynard’s seductive web, as Daumen,
the box- maker, must decide who his master really is.
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I love beautiful prose and when it's attached to a good novel read it makes me happy. I go into smiling
mode. It's great and I love it.
For it's word choice that drives the sentence to build the paragraph, it's word choice pins the same chapter
that drives the story.
Good word choice drips the image down the page and finely tuned verbs harmonize to their melody to
paint the scenes, so that slowly the space between the heartbeat opens and you step in and you meet the
three dimensional character that waits on the other side of the door.
And for a while you check out of your own reality into someone else's dreamworld and you trust the
voice to maintain a steady beat to ease you through the character trials and tribulations, their hopes and
dreams and you trust this voice to resolve the character's issues in a best fashion, so that when you close
the cover you have a memory to add to a treasured mind collection that only you have the key for and you
put that invisible key on an invisible chain and hang it around your neck for safe keeping.
The Linnet's Wings