Maria Terreira has soft hands and a nose that looks like a ski ramp into love. Maria Terreira speaks little English and lives in a heavy building with young plaster, which looks old beside the lively main street. The floor of her apartment is covered with cold tiles, and over yellow wallpaper hang cheap paintings whose randomness brings some creativity to her clockwork life - to show that there is more in there. When friends visit on Fridays, they may all apply lipstick in Maria Terreira's bathroom and smoke in her living room because, after the second bottle of Muscatel, she's had enough of the subdued tones of her tick-tock life. Maria Terreira can't part with objects that were given to her before the turn of the millennium. Her rooms are filled with heavy furniture from past lives, making her small apartment even smaller, and preventing Maria Terreira from casually walking away from it all and starting somewhere new without the heavy building and cold tiles weighing down her thoughts. Darkness and decor rule, sometimes frightening her, like experiences that don't alter a thing. Lead nowhere and have no plausible purpose. Through which you grow neither riper nor stronger, and only reveal their imaginary fatefulness at the end, making us feel significant. Maria Terreira likes to leave room for chance because she loves everything that feels beyond her area of responsibilities. Everything that escapes her control. Men, seasons and the last blouse in just her size.
Konstantin Arnold
Lissabon
Book
MENINA - A Short Story by Konstantin Arnold
May I introduce you to MENINA - A Short Story by writer and photographer Konstantin Arnold?! A German author living in Lisbon. His new book will be published in Portugal & Germany. It is about Lisbon, literature, love! Translation by Farnaz Riedel. All photos by Konstantin Arnold! www.konstantinarnold.de
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