Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 4 by Thanos Kalamidas
17 May 2010
The coffee was cappuccino, not the best of its kind, the croissant was a bit dry and the sit comfortable. I sat drinking slowly my coffee and watching the people around me. It was a bit after noon and the mall was full of mothers with young children, old |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 5 by Thanos Kalamidas
22 May 2010
Fine, fine; I\'m a lazy bastard but I had nothing better to do that morning so I decided to treat my self a second cappuccino and a nice cinnamon ban The ones I really love and in this specific cafe they make oversize enough to feed two or one in my size! |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 6 by Thanos Kalamidas
27 May 2010
I went back home and started checking the news online. The summer seemed to have reached Finland but heavy rain was everywhere in Greece and I had the feeling that a very long winter had fallen upon my country. The financial situation seemed to have const |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 7 by Thanos Kalamidas
07 June 2010
Helena was waiting for me next to her small car; she has one of those pocket Japanese cars. She was rolling a cigarette and she had one of those I don\'t give a damn styles. Helena is tall nearly six foot with short hair, always warring jeans and white me |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 8 by Thanos Kalamidas
16 June 2010
It was one of those mornings. Everybody has this image of the prisoner chained to a huge heavy black iron ball; well that\'s how I feel a lot of times with my diabetes. I feel that it is the huge heavy iron ball and it is there to remind me how frag |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 9 by Thanos Kalamidas
19 June 2010
\"Twenty six year-old woman, stabbed from the back!\" Pekka took a deep breathe and continued in slower voice, \"Kurdish origin, she moved to Finland from Iraq twelve years ago. She had Finnish passport!\" and then he went totally quiet looking at his hal |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 10 by Thanos Kalamidas
23 June 2010
Pekka had left and I was there alone under the gray sky with a cup of cold coffee and no more cigarettes. I decided a walk to the petrol station near my house wouldn\'t hurt me so I took my jacket and started walking towards the petrol station. |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 11 by Thanos Kalamidas
29 June 2010
Alexei was everything I was not prepared of. But I suppose my mistake was that knowing Ivan for so long and having met a few more Russians around I was expecting to see something similar, this gentle but strong way they carry themselves around. Well, Alex |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 12 by Thanos Kalamidas
05 July 2010
Looking at Alexei while he was talking with Ivan I started thinking how easily we include and conclude death in our life. Heart attack and we feel relieved, we understand it we can live and continue living with it. It was the same with murder. Murdered by |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 13 by Thanos Kalamidas
08 July 2010
If meeting the Christ-like Alexei was some kind of a surprise, going to his house was a shock. Doesn\'t matter how long you might have spent profiling people and situations you never stop been a human making common mistakes and carrying the most common st |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 14 by Thanos Kalamidas
16 July 2010
I was back confused of the pictures my mind has collected and I decided to do something I very rarely do, keep some notes. Usually I trust my mind and my memory and more often my mind recalls events and pictures analyzes them and finds things that I hadn |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 15 by Thanos Kalamidas
20 July 2010
Leena looked in a really good mood and I thought to make a little use of her good spirit and the same time give her a bit of adventure; after all it is her who complains often that she never does anything interesting. Apart of that Leena has something ver |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 16 by Thanos Kalamidas
25 July 2010
Seppo was proved easy to trace but nearly impossible to find in the end. In the beginning I called the party offices where I was lucky to find a secretary who actually remembered me despite the years that had gone since the last time I was there, but she |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 17 by Thanos Kalamidas
09 August 2010
Pekka started saying \"satana\" from the minute he met me outside the police station, continued all the way to the small square nearby and he didn\'t stop when we sat down and ordered coffee for both of us, a cinnamon ban for me and a salm |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 18 by Thanos Kalamidas
13 August 2010
Pekka returned to the small cafe just minutes after I finished my second cigarette and returned inside. The Pakistani man had refilled my cup with the same overcooked coffee and this time I had a croissant with some very thin samples of cheese and tomato |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 19 by Thanos Kalamidas
20 August 2010
The girl with the yellow jacket was sitting on the other side of the wagon and I was in the metro on my way to east Helsinki. Pekka left the cafe warning me that nobody should know about the photos he had just given me making clear that if he would lose h |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 20 by Thanos Kalamidas
23 August 2010
Leena had gone to a friend of hers for dinner and I was alone smoking in my patio, thinking the conversations I had this morning and all the possibilities to carry on my research. Oddly that\'s the only way I could see it, like a research isolating myself |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 21 by Thanos Kalamidas
27 August 2010
Kitty\'s is an Irish style pub in the open inner area of Makkaratalo in the very centre of Helsinki close the train station and the world trade centre. Makkaratalo means sausage house but the place has and never had anything to do with sausages and it\'s |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 22 by Thanos Kalamidas
03 September 2010
The man had done everything possible at least everything he thought and felt possible to make that marriage work but it seemed that did\'t matter what he did he was always the infidel! Seppo was getting more and more upset and I could say that soon with a |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 23 by Thanos Kalamidas
20 September 2010
The evening gone quiet with me watching episodes of the comic series \"Frasier\" the one after the other, and I think it was something like after two in the morning when I realized that I hadn\'t watch more than a couple of episodes and I had gone to a de |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 24 by Thanos Kalamidas
18 October 2010
Alexei was listening and the girl was talking non stop and then he turned and put his hand around her waist, but what really stroke me was not the move but the smile on his face. And it was like thousands of scenarios fled my mind in seconds all of them w |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 25 by Thanos Kalamidas
09 November 2010
After two hours looking every single detail of the photos we both were more frustrated than before. There was no clue in those photos we haven\'t examine, talked about it, analyzed it. Our imagination had worked far beyond science fiction and we both had |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 26 by Thanos Kalamidas
12 January 2011
Things have changed rapidly, heavy snow is here and it is cold outside which can be translated as I smoke less. When you wake up in the morning the patio looks covered from some kind of white dust. It is not exactly dust but frost from the night. The chan |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 27 by Thanos Kalamidas
21 February 2011
The weather has gotten worst reaching unbelievable lows, some saying that this was the lowest temperatures the last fifty years. Some mornings you feel like returning under the blankets and cover your head avoiding temperatures of minus twenty-one and twe |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 28 by Thanos Kalamidas
07 March 2011
Pekka ordered a salmon fish sandwich with a pint of lager, I had my usual cheese bacon panini with strong cappuccino and we both remained quiet for long time eating and thinking how to start. Pekka looked really tired but I knew that this winter had been |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 29 by Thanos Kalamidas
07 April 2011
We both got there exactly the same moment and we both had the feeling that we were talking about the same thing. For a bit we stopped in silence looking at each other and then Pekka said, \"Sweden, the Swedish incident a couple of years ago!\" The Swedish |
Back to Helsinginkatu 10: Chapter 30 by Thanos Kalamidas
09 April 2011
And we had to wait only as long a cigarette lasts. Pekka recognized the man straight away and when he saw him walking out of the entrance, he pushed me a bit back and he decided to follow him. I don\'t know what got to him, I would have stopped him straig |
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