Belauscht

An infant was crying in his stroller. Not the typical wailing you hear from a tiny human. This sounded like a miniature raptor roaring into a muffled megaphone. For a moment, it unsettled everyone, but the only actual consequence was that it distracted his dad — it could’ve been an uncle or a family friend — ‘whoever’ was playing in a chess tournament at Volkspark Wilmersdorf. The man turned to check on baby Jonas, who was perfectly fine, but when he returned to move his King to safety, away from the opposing dark-squared Bishop, his clock read 0:01, then 0:00.

Samir de Leon