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A Numbers Game

a novel by Rapp Fenstermacher

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Young Blockführer Gottschalk, ambitious, ambiguous, has set his mind on achieving what his crooked-legged father never could: to become a distinguished officer in the SS. One December evening, an unsigned letter reaches him in his barracks. He is summoned to the camp commander’s eerie hill-top mansion to partake in a high-risk card game with some SS big shots. The game could mean a boost for Gottschalk’s career, but whoever loses the game must face the consequences. As the game ignites, Gottschalk has to overcome his anxiety and reservations to survive.

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Bibimbap

a free short story

To celebrate the grand opening of our digital warehouse, we offer you, our voracious consumer of Origami entertainment, Bibimbap, a short story written by Bart van Liempd.

A man finds himself alone in an professional kitchen without any doors or windows. There's an incessant monotonous drone that drives him mad, an engine of some kind? The only variation to his days is a small food elevator that comes down at irregular intervals and provides him with fresh ingredients. As the story progresses he tries to figure the meaning of his imprisoned life, to escape it and to kill the time in between.

What is Bibimbap? For starters, it's a dark short story, a Korean style allegory of individualistic society and the illusion of freedom. It might be a lot more than that.

Monazit

blurring the boundaries of the novel

We started working on an immersive multimodal project titled "monazit". It'll be a work of fiction set in rural Hungary around 1989, a nerve-racking mystery for the amateur sleuths and poetically inclined puzzlers among you.

Multimodal means the project will be novel + sound recordings + poetry + interactive fiction + (AI) imagery + video. It also means you might have a part to play and that you might be rewarded for going the extra mile. But then again we've just started, our creative ambitions might at some point exceed our potential or our attention span. We'll expect 'monazit' to be a long time in the making, but documenting the process is part of the project so we want to involve you in an early stage.

"Monazit" content will become available and updated continuously, a log will be provided to document progress, stay tuned to get early access.

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The wordsmith's workshop

DAY 1

After sneaking around the premises for a few days, you slowly, conspicuously step inside the mossy brick building. The wordsmith casts you a short glance, sizes you up, before returning to his work. You tiptoe around the workshop, ogle the myriad tools and pick one up at random (or is it?).

You knit your brow as you turn it this way and that.

from tale to retail

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it might be a forthnight, it could be moons, but something's brewing, that's for sure

Picture of the book launch of 'A Numbers Game' @ De Utrechtse Boekenbar

26th of May: "A Numbers Game" Book Launch

On the 26th of May the cool people of De Utrechtse Boekenbar offered us their monumental (and admittedly rather damp and creepy) wharf cellar as the perfect backdrop for the presenation of Rapp Fenstermacher's novel 'A Numbers Game'. Lovely people from all walks of life joined us for a night to remember. The venue was sold out and the audience took part in a lively and low-key Q and A. This definitely makes up for all the hard work and we're anxious to hear the first reactions to the book.

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