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\n____________________________________________________________  \nStaff Issue No. 2  \nAdvisor General Editor Editors  \nPR  \nLogo  \nGeorgina Willms Michelle Piwek Kay Dockhorn  \nKatja Löhle Nils Apel meier Paula Kaiser  \nMichelle Piwek  \nCreated with the support of the Fachsprachenzentrum at Bielefeld University  \nTable of Contents  \nIntroduction 1  \nThe Infinity of Stories 3  \nThe Story of Heroes 9  \nThe day the world stopped making sense 10  \nThe Journey of the Trident 15  \nI Used to Have a Garden Deep Inside 17  \nEncore 19  \nSixteen Days 22  \n[ \" Enveloped in a night... \"] 25  \nOur lives, our choices 27  \nDrawbridge 34  \nBruises 36  \n[ \" I walk the streets... \"] 37  \nA lesson in (in)visibility 38  \nReading Critic 39  \nCrashing Waves 40  \nNot a \"Good\" Bye 41  \nI'm me 42  \nI Am 43  \nUniversity Bielefeld Urban Legend! 44  \nConspiracy Theory, short story! Totally  \ntrue! Slightly scary!  \nClosing Word 52  \nAuthors 53  \nIntroduction  \nby Georgina Willms  \nDear Reader,  \nin your hands (or more likely, on your screen) you hold the second issue of Ink Drop. Ink Drop is a collection of work produced in the English creative writing courses offered at the language centre at Bielefeld University. In these courses, students increase their language fluency by studying, creating, and sharing works of prose and poetry.  \nThese courses began in the spring of 2020, inadvertently coinciding with the world shutting down. Perhaps due in part to this, what began as a creative and academic exercise, a way to practice language in a fun way, quickly grew into something bigger. In these courses students have had the opportunity to not just explore the fear and uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic and its repercussions, but also, to explore the fear and uncertainty that is a part of young adulthood and the search for identity.  \nMany of the works included here are intensely personal and often quite impassioned. But they are also funny, perceptive, witty, and above all, wildly imaginative. The title of this issue is The Unspoken Issue (other candidates for the title were The Life Issue, The Coming Out Issue, and The Issues Issue) . Somethings are hard to put into words, they are hard to say and left unspoken. But that doesn't mean they have to be unwritten. Sometimes, writing can be just the right medium, helping you find the right words and the right format to express whatever you want to say.  \nAs I write this, in April 2023, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. War has returned to Europe. The LGBTQIA+ community is under constant attack. 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