Twelve Months. Life is a Story - story.one

Twelve months. For some it feels like an eternity. For some it feels like a blink of time. Compared to a lifetime - whatever that means - twelve months seem such a short time.For this twenty-five-year-old it feels particularly odd when those twelve months are racing by, yet filled with tragic news from all around the world. While at the same time one is trapped in a kind of time-freeze feeling unable to move, to react or to change anything. Pressed down, feeling helpless and useless.The author processes tragic news with a calendar of fictional short stories, in which each month is dedicated to a particular event from somewhere around the globe.Trigger warning: indirect and direct descriptions of assault, brutality, death, genocide, murder, pain, rape and suicide.

Autorentext

Laura Alison Osborne was born in 1999 in Frankfurt, Germany. With the start of school, she became a member of the scouts. Later she started working voluntarily as a group leader and chairperson for six years and joined work-groups on the scouts states level, for handling prevention and intervention of sexual violence and for education on LGBTQIA+*. During her school years she participated in the schools obligatory social work experience and worked in a Childrens Home in the Khayelitsha Township, Cape Town for a month. After her school graduation and a gap-year she started studying interior architecture when Covid spread all over the world. Following those years of juggling her studies as well as her voluntary work she graduated in 2024 and moved abroad. She now lives in a small town in Sweden working freelance.