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Discover Maniwolf’s Short Stories and Poems!

Maniwolf sings the song of the endless beauty, joy, sadness, fragility and absurdity of our earthly existence.

A Few Words From Maniwolf….

 

This Website is a work in progress, like everything in this world, our lives, your life, my life, my stories. I always thought my stories needed to be perfect before being published. That’s one reason I never published in the past.

Finally, instead of producing a perfect website, I decided to just go ahead with the material that’s there now, sometimes raw and rough. It is continuously being worked on, changing like the untamed waves of the sea, growing like the virgin rain forest. Please don’t hold me to what you saw yesterday or see today, because it may not be the same tomorrow….

Especially the translations of the stories originally created in German and Spanish may be flawed. Those stories have been translated by DeepL.com, and while that platform is amazing, its translations do come with inevitable imperfections, especially when we talk about creative writing material. I have edited those translations, but ultimately they need to be reviewed by my favorite language company, USAtranslations.org.

The website is mainly published in English for now, yet you see some German and Spanish versions. Ultimately you may select all features between those three languages.

I admit that my stories are naively simple and deeply personal. As a human creature who survived miraculously against all odds, unfortunately this is the only way I can write.

My material has developed from my childhood memories, life and death experiences, deep-feeling psychotherapy scenes, day and night dreams, passionate love entanglements, adventurous travels, wild road trips and an exuberant imagination….

Do you find these stories inspiring, uplifting? Probably not, at least not at first glance. For some readers they may come across as outright sad, dreary and painful. This approach has grown from the experience that tackling the darker sides of our existence may ultimately lead us to a new zest for life, its beauty and joy.

Rather than merely entertaining, these creations come with an underlying psychological slant. If you just want to be receptive…

Altogether they may be seen as a true and simultaneously fictitious memoir, but they are certainly designed to be read individually.

This website is intended to be interactive. That’s why you find a message form at the bottom of each page. Your comments are welcome!

Below is a selection of stories! Find more creations under Stories and Poems.

All photos are from Maniwolf’s road trips. Below is a selection. Find more under Gallery

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