A Boy Named Klaus

A new story from Kerstin Lieff, A Boy Named Klaus, is a vivid and engrossing account of a boy who finds himself wandering the streets of his bombed-out city, needing to make decisions that no four-year-old should ever have to face. A Boy Named Klaus became a finalist in the Southeast Review's Creative Nonfiction Writing Contest in 2014. To read the story in full, visit my new website. To purchase a copy of the 2015 Southeast Review, click here.

Excerpt from A Boy Named Klaus:

... "In the night sometimes, when the soft noises of boys’ sleep floated through the darkness, he thought he could hear the letter whispering to him. It said to stay strong. Don’t worry so much. It gave him a feeling he did not understand. He would come to call it Courage in time."  read more >> 

Excerpt from Letters From Berlin:

   ... “I stepped off the train and out into the light of Berlin. My first impression was this: All the flowers were gone. And then this: The trees were black and leafless. Buildings I used to know were gone. There and there, blackened walls silhouetted against the blue sky, a bathtub hanging in midair…There were no words. How are you? How have  you been? Would have had no meaning…And so we just stood in the doorway and held each other. We knew, in that moment, that we were two of the lucky ones.”    — From Letters From Berlin