if u r wondering, where is this girl...

she just left, as she always does.

Author: poppyhead. (Lenka Baranová)

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forgetting

forgetting

you think you won’t forget your lover but darling, you will like… a white Christmas snowy days you know you can’t expect just like that deep inside you know somewhere in the future this is over you will forget him slowly you’ll wake up in the morning not being able to recall his way of...

Before I go to sleep

Before I go to sleep

Before I go to sleep deals with fascinating areas – the human mind, oblivion, anamnesis. Nicole Kidman performed an excellent acting performance. From the beginning, you watch her being naive willing to trust the man she lives with. Gradually, she becomes a strong woman determined to uncover her own past – despite the fact that...

In the tall grass – a terrifying metaphor of life

In the tall grass – a terrifying metaphor of life

CW: spoilers You probably remember my last review of No one gets out alive. Well, if you are deciding between these two horrors, be sure to choose King’s Grass. More than two years ago, it has aroused the interest of many. A pregnant woman travels to San Diego with her brother behind the wheel. Halfway...

No one gets out alive – older but promising piece

No one gets out alive – older but promising piece

Horrible job, sad eyes – it is immediately clear that the main character is not living the best life. To make matters worse; there is something wrong with the house she is moving into. It is dark, dilapidated, the lights are doing crazy things and its former inhabitants do not look very happy. The owner...

fifty-four

fifty-four

on our date fifty-four months from now you are thirty wearing new clothes talking with a voice rougher than i remember you seem confident as you always have and you still make me smile i am twenty-five i have finally figured out my style but today i look feminine, a little too much ’cause i...

distant places

distant places

take me back take me back to my grandfather teaching me how to play chess telling me stories and laughing so hard his face turns red take me back to my grandmother who doesn’t have dementia but has a mind smarter than our whole family combined who is so strict when we study grammar and...

that’s when

that’s when

as my mother says that others will come, i am trying to imagine them a dark-skinned boy who looks nothing like you approaching me on the dancing floor a long-haired girl wearing confidence i never had me, approaching her others will come, my mother says  to what she says, i respond quietly: i know they...

spaghetti Aglio e Olio with sun-dried tomatoes

spaghetti Aglio e Olio with sun-dried tomatoes

My favourite. With my family, I always have them on Fridays together with a glass of red wine. And I don’t exchange that evening for anything in the world. Not even for a party. It is already a habit that I only join my friends after a while and traditionally I bring a garlic smell...

about loss pt. II

about loss pt. II

it’s been a few months since you disappeared since you vanished without a warning trying to fall asleep, i always pray for the morning because then and there i think so intensely i can hardly stand it the way you left is still rewinding in my mind how you went just like that, out of...

vegan paprikash with dumplings

vegan paprikash with dumplings

I’ve always loved this meal. Being a little girl who devoured it on the ski slopes, it never occurred to me that a vegan version could be made. I found out about this many years later while flipping through the book full of plant-based recipes – Slovegán. So this one is inspired by it. However,...