The posts in english from my blog. Reviews, short stories, essays and the like. https://www.jectoons.net/category/english/
16 Apr 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Jectoons
Now that the first of the house chores were done, I had to do something about my car and the bloody clothes that still sat in the guest room. The newspapers had gotten stuck to the trunk because of the blood drying up, but I managed to tear it all o...
15 Apr 2021 6 minute read 0 comments Jectoons
First, the doorbell, then six, seven, eight loud knocks on the front door, and before I knew it I had jumped out of bed. I ran as fast as I could to the foyer, groggily deactivated the alarm and looked through the peephole. A mustachioed, short ma...
14 Apr 2021 8 minute read 2 comments Jectoons
I don’t remember exactly why I had chosen to travel at night. It’s not like I was busy during the day, doing something that could have delayed my departure; so it probably had to do with laziness, putting off the start of the job until the last poss...
13 Apr 2021 8 minute read 2 comments Jectoons
I had three good reasons for taking the job. The first one was, of course, that I was unemployed, and this particular fact used to start a number of arguments with my parents every day, to the point that I started to wonder if they would eventually...
8 Apr 2021 5 minute read 4 comments Jectoons
So, as far as I know, everybody's first instinct when it comes to trying to accrue wealth tends to be "How do I make more money?". I know it is my first instinct, even though I have been thinking about and reading and watching finance stuff for a cou...
2 Apr 2021 3 minute read 7 comments Jectoons
I, robot is a collection of stories related to the fictional robopsychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin, and is set in the late 21st century. It is told as a dramatization of past events involving the inclusion of robots in human life, starting in the early...
1 Apr 2021 3 minute read 2 comments Jectoons
“The next financial collapse will resemble nothing in history… Deciding upon the best course to follow will require comprehending a minefield of risks, while poised at a crossroads, pondering the death of the dollar.” This was a tough read. N...
30 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Jectoons
This book reminded me a lot of The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Mark Haddon, 2004) , due to it's topic and choice of protagonist, as well as its portrayal of autism. Adding synesthesia and face blindness into the mix, however, ma...
29 Mar 2021 5 minute read 0 comments Jectoons
First short story I wrote in English, originally posted on Medium in 2018 What do you do, when you learn the name of the person who ruined your life? What do you do, when after years of pondering and searching, you finally find out this word, this n...
27 Mar 2021 16 minute read 0 comments Jectoons
7.6 out of 10 A collectathon platformer that brings a lot of fresh ideas to the genre — some of them executed really nicely and some of them lacking in the execution, Yooka-Laylee is a fun, punny and inventive game that gets you to keep playing in s...
