Archive for category: Crime and Punishment

PenTales Book #26

PenTales  started out as a small narrative experiment: We handed 20 empty notebooks to 20 friends, and asked them each to start a story. Many such books are now traveling the world as each storyteller passes the book on to someone new to continue their story. These are pages from […]

PenTales Book #20

PenTales  started out as a small narrative experiment: We handed 20 empty notebooks to 20 friends, and asked them each to start a story. Many such books are now traveling the world as each storyteller passes the book on to someone new to continue their story. These are pages from […]

“My Crime Story” by Kate Fink

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: VIDEO  

“G-N-A-S-H” by Richard Boenigk, NYC

topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: VIDEO    

Crime and Punishment Salon Nights in NYC, Berlin, and London

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: VIDEOS Check out these videos from the PenTales Crime and Punishment salon nights in 2010. The series includes stories by our friends Carlos Velazquez, Richard Boenigk, Nicole Burdette, Hamish Allan-Headley, Toby Miller, Will Carlough, Tom Zoellner, Kate Fink, Yesim Ak, Toby Miller, Sofia Paraskeva, and Alexandra Zelman-Doring. […]

“A Fabulous Opportunity” by Phillip Hutten, Vienna

“A Fabulous Opportunity” by Phillip Hutten, Vienna

topic: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Crime and Punishment” Ich hatte noch nichts gefangen, alles schien so wie immer zu laufen, auszusehen, der See, an der betreffenden Stelle an der ich immer stand, Sonntags um diese Zeit.Die regelmäßigen Kirchenbesuche hatte ich ohnehin schon […]

“A Garden for Higher Authorities” by Elinor, Paris

“A Garden for Higher Authorities” by Elinor, Paris

topic: CRIME & PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT   A large palm tree stood near the entrance of the garden. Beneath the tree was a vast carpet of flowering plants, but there were gardeners of an Indian or Pakistani origin busily transplanting the small white flowering shrubs for a similar red flowering […]

“The Fool – with Apologies to Tom Robbins” by Josh, Paris

“The Fool – with Apologies to Tom Robbins” by Josh, Paris

topic: CRIME & PUNISHMENT medium: TEXT as shared at an event themed “Royalty” I’d watch out if I were you- they don’t take kindly to strangers around here- let me tell you that,” said the man sitting in the hanging cage at the crossroads. “I’ve been here for three days […]

“Ich war nie sonderlich hübsch” by Louisa Lowenstein (Berlin)

“Ich war nie sonderlich hübsch” by Louisa Lowenstein (Berlin)

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT “Ich war nie sonderlich hübsch. Wenn es nicht immer freundlich Proteststürme hervorrufen würde, würde ich sogar zugeben, dass ich mich hässlich finde. Alles an mir ist etwas zu weit, zu eng, zu kurz oder zu lang und nichts scheint so wirklich zueinander zu gehören. Als kleines Mädchen […]