Øivind H. Solheim
Bio
Novel author, lifelong learner and nature photographer: Poetry, short stories, personal essays, articles and stories on nature, hiking, physical and mental health, living in relationships, love, and future. “Make Your Dream Be Your Future”
Stories (42)
Filter by community
Maybe She Was a Stranger to Me
I tried to think back, the last few days before she disappeared. As far as I could see everything had been as usual. The day yesterday, and the day before that again. I came home, took off the shoes. I climbed the stairs. I came up to the main floor. She usually sat on a chair in the kitchen. The same thing always happened: As I entered, she got up.
By Øivind H. Solheim4 years ago in Families
I Believe in What I See
I'm not a very suspicious person. I believe in what I see and I have always believed in her before. I have not had reason to be suspicious of her because she was always a reliable person and always does what she says she should. I know everything about her, I thought. I usually thought so. But sometimes the doubts were there, I had to admit to myself
By Øivind H. Solheim4 years ago in Families
A Man from the North
I work in a factory, and it's not very satisfying really. But I have gotten used to it. At the end of the evening shift, I stand in the shower and let the warm water filter down my body and drain off the residues of carbide dust that have stuck to my pores.
By Øivind H. Solheim4 years ago in Humans
You Give Me Warmth and I Love It
It is becoming more and more clear. I have to trust myself. Others can hardly be trusted to get it the way you want it. Everyone must create and take care of their own happiness. The other usually fails not out of malice or complacency, but for other, perhaps external reasons.
By Øivind H. Solheim4 years ago in Humans
It Happened
We were out for a night. A wild card. A shot in the dark. An evening and a night out, that could turn out as an ordinary night out in the city. Or that could result in a moment of surprise, a savagery, a wild adventure, a night of ferocity, fury and intoxication.
By Øivind H. Solheim4 years ago in Humans
I Will Not Show Emotion
Chapter 32 I have been with my husband for almost two decades, and I have been through the usual stages that in most cases are part of a long-term relationship: falling in love, sex and love, engagement and wedding, more love and sex, pregnancy, birth and puerperium. And I have experienced waves and hills, I have experienced great joys and great sorrows. Together we have experienced the best of the good and the worst of losses.
By Øivind H. Solheim4 years ago in Humans
