51 - Kumpel (buddy)

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#51 by deer prudence.

"Hey Buddy, what's up?"

Is Marty in great danger - or has he just made new friends?
(…and how is all this connected to Bielefeld?)

50 - underworld

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#50 by Katrin Merle.

 

"There is so much more unterneath the surface … much much more than you suspect"

47, 48 - A or B?

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#47 and '48 by Katrin Merle.
Katrin sent me two postcards at once - So I'll have to decide which way the story will continue! What will it be? …

 

Only the captain was allowed to push this button. On his birthday!

which way do you choose - A or B?

46 - switch

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#46 by deer prudence

We've arrived in real time now. So the postings will no longer come daily - I'll upload new cards when they happen. You can check Katrin's blog in case she is ahead of this site, if you like.

Wir sind jetzt in der Gegenwart angekommen. Das heisst, ich zeige hier nicht mehr jeden Tag eine neue Karte - die Einträge kommen jetzt unregelmäßiger, wenn es eine neue Postkarte gibt. Wer möchte, kann auf Katrin's Blog gucken, ob es schon was neues gibt.

So many buttons! Little Marty couldn't resist.

45 - the captain

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#45 by Katrin Merle

"Can you tell me if I can find a fish sandwich around here?"
"Well … excellent question …"

"Well, you know, I feel a tad hungry myself. Would you agree for me to accompany you on your quest?"
"Yes? Fine. What are your thoughts about this, dear? Wouldn't it be a nice …"

34 - Angler fish

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#34 by Katrin Merle

"Now what have we here?"

33 - Tz, Tz, Tz

A postcard exchange between Katrin Merle and Peter Guckes.
#33 by deer prudence

"The captain didn't know how many times he'd seen this. Nothing to do here …
He decided to go look for a fish sandwich."

not a blog post

So I met a bird in a submarine. Needless to say, this looks really strange and of course people started to tell me to write about it in my blog.

Now, this would be the most predictable thing to do.

I could say it’s name was Nemo (it’s not), and describe how Nemo explores new worlds he never knew and maybe talk about a funny encounter with a starfish or a whale or whatever sea animal, post a picture of what I was writing about (the bird in the submarine), and win an award for the dullest idea in a blog. Instant fame.

Trying to avoid to be that boring, I asked Ulisses (that’s his real name) about some adventure he might have had in his submarine. Now Ulisses is not much of a storyteller, all he said was how nice it was to get away from the constant twittering and how he disliked sea animals and that worms weren’t what they used to be in the old days. He also suggested I could write a post about him in my blog. Nice idea, I said and – for a second or two – considered to post a chicken soup recipe instead.

So I decided to write a story about a yeti wandering around the streets of some middlesized european town on a midsummer night trying to buy crushed ice with an expired credit card and illustrate it with a picture of Ulisses in his vessel. This seemed like a less predictable approach, but the yeti was offended (I had to promise to write about him later on, no credit cards involved), and so was Ulisses, who claimed he wasn’t inferior to a yeti and accused me of hating birds out of mammalocentrism (whatever that means).

I give up.
Here is the picture:

a bird in a submarine!