Dorothee Lang
Retro
(1)
All day long, she is chasing deadlines. Back home, she watches the news, then zaps through channels, and falls asleep without noticing it. Her dreams are liquid, almost HD-quality.
(2)
She sits on a red leather sofa in a retro café. Someone she met a lifetime ago is there, too. He says: “Are you able to read the future yet?” When she shakes her head, he explains how you can do this. It is about dreaming backwards, about taking a turn in the middle of a dream. It isn’t even difficult.
(3)
When she wakes, there, in front of the screen, it takes her some moments to understand that she is at home, that the place she has been to doesn’t really exist. Still she tries to hold on to the dream, to the explanation given to her, but it already is fading away. The only thing that remains is the sound of his voice, there, in this other place.
Dorothee Lang is, among other things, a freelancer, a gardener, a writer, a Capricorn, a visual artist, a traveler, and the editor of BluePrintReview, an experimental online journal. Her work has appeared in Referential, qarrtsiluni, Wheelhouse, elimae and numerous other places. She lives in Germany, and blogs in virtual notes.
