...or start your fictional journey with the first sentence of your character:

Team Achill
Hi everybody, my name is Deirdre O' Donnell. I am 26 years old and I am a student...
Simmone is a television reporter from one of the Paris news channels...
Chissel is in her mid to late teens (not exactly sure of her age, thinks that she may be 15 -17 years old)...
On the right-hand side as you near the bridge to enter Achill Island, will be found the old railway station, which was built, in 1886...

Team Bonn
The glass door swung open and the waiter turned round. Another group of customers...
Volker cursed the day when he had decided to change his life completely.
Andreas: "Thank God, we made it." Alexandra: "Actually I had given up on catching that plane."...
"So, how are things going at my old school?" Alexandra sipped at her tea while settling into a comfortable armchair...
Dear Liam, Young people! Can you believe I had to call THREE of my nephews before I found one willing to carry my luggage to the train?...
I hate these kind of days, the weather seems to want to kill us all, Lalo is sick...
She was four years old when her parents had died in this car crash...
Helen: Hello? Paula: Hi, it's me. Helen: What a surprise, I didn't expect you to call today. How are you?...
Man, it's really good to see Helen again. I always realize how much I like her, how much I miss her when we meet after a pretty long time...

Team Brighton
Vasilis has just returned from work . It was a tough day at the bowling alley, the Panhellinic championship was taking place and Vasilis had to make sure that everything was working perfectly...
Today is Friday and it has been a busy day for me trying to do some gardening, but at my age everything is more difficult, and this chore takes a long time before it is done properly...
Hello, hello? How I feel about Achill Island? Well, let's start at the beginning...
He got off the train and rushed to his solicitor's office in Kensington High Street...
It is a sunny day in Thessaloniki, Larry is driving home from work and he can get his mind out of that letter he received for Ireland this morning...

Team Cologne
"Koelle Alaaf - Long live Cologne," somebody shouted and tossed a bottle of the famous Cologne beer called "Koelsch" on the street...
"I did it," she said with a big smile on her face. "A 180 noserole - for the first time it worked!...
A flash of lightning crossed the black horizon followed by a loud bang of thunder...
The bell rang - and the very same moment the glass and concrete structures of the wide school corridors were plunged into chaos...
Andreas had just unpacked his suitcase and arranged things for his first night in Dublin...
An hour and quite a few whiskeys later, Vincent was still sitting at the bar...
It was raining cats and dogs. Sabine, a 25-year-old student, was looking out of the windows of her small apartment...
Dieter Tsitra, an artist, a painter, 50 years old, lives in Cologne. He's a short guy, very vivid and intelligent...
She had a strong will to get things managed if she thought they were necessary...

Team Fulda
The Searcher is on a quest. She observes people, watching them, hoping to find a truth, an answer to a question no one else comprehends...
As my story continues, my first stop is in Fulda...
The train went fast and in spite of his efforts to keep track of time and the cities they passed through, he started reminiscing about his past...
Why do we have to hide? Why can´t we just be ourselves?...
Was it because she just wants to be reunited with her old coterie—plain and simple...
It would be the last time that this night train would follow this beautiful rail track beside the Rhine to Cologne...
Since I changed my living place because of professional reasons I have travelled a lot by train between northern and southern Germany...
Naturally she accepted the invitation to go to Achill Island immediately...

Team Kassel
The vernissage at the caricatura is over. The artist asks the last guests to join him for a final drink at the pub "Gleis 1"...
Grandfather Georg Müller (former George Miller 1943-1947), around 70 years, is living in a little house with pastureland east of Kassel widower since 10 years and a creative self-made-man...
Die 60jährige Gerda Hübsch befindet sich auf einer Reise...
H. M. is a 35 year old writer. As he very much enjoys to be the centre of attraction, he prefers flashy clothes...
At the age of 23 she "left" the GDR and her partylined husband, studied at Bonn-University history of art and is working in her "exile" Kassel since 1991 at the "documenta-archive"...
Lily Krause is - well, Lily Krause. The 50 year old lady lives in Kassel because it's kind of inconspicuous, easy to get there and easy to get away...
Tom is 28 years old and studying Fine Arts in Kassel. He lives in a commune made up 5 people, plus his dog and the house rat...
It was a rainy uncomfortable saturday morning in Kassel . Gerda Huebsch has just prepared her breakfast...
Heiner Maier thinks about death. The train to Ireland is leaving Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe [Schwirzke, Kassel, Bahnhof Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe] 8.40h...
Shit, o shit - with nervous fingers Jenny searched in her black Gucci-bag, regarding at the same time all those red traffic-lights in front of the taxi which should bring her to the Frankfurt-ICE in time...
Tom took the train to the station. As he got out, he looked up and saw the statue of Hercules in the distance, clothed in a veil of morning mist...
You mind if I listen to music", she asked Georg, who was making himself comfortable at the seat across hers. Georg shook his head...
It took Jenny about 10 minutes to calm down in the train. Tom had stored her luggage - good old Tom!...
It was quiet and nearly empty in the ICE-Bistro, when Jenny and Tom arrived. Only Heiner Maiers yellow scarf was shining in the background near the bar...

Team Madrid
There are two characters in this story: Alejandra, a retired editor, and her daughter Marta, who is a journalist. Alejandra's husband, Oskar, a German art critic, died a few years ago and Alejandra's continuous mourning has made the mother-daughter relationship even more complicated that such things usually are.

Team Sankt Augustin
Karin Chauvistré - Railway station Bielefeld: I have just seventeen minutes to change the train...

Team Umeå
I sat in my seat and leaned my head against the cool windowpane and watched the green cascade of summer outside...
I should have brought my sunglasses ! Having to peer all the time, because of the strong sun made me irritated and I felt a throbbing headache slowly growing behind my forehead...
The young woman brushed away some of the blonde curls covering her eyes and leaned forward to get a better look at the beautiful landscape drifting past her window...
"Diiing, doong, next stop Mora station!" I was awakened by the crackling sound from the internal speakers. Where was I?...
I said bye to my father and got on the train in Sorsele. It was 7 am and freezing cold outside...
I woke up early. It was a beautiful morning I stepped out in the sun and took a deep breath...
I nearly screamed out with joy when the train finally arrived, it have felt like I had been standing on this bloody train station in Gothenburg for several hours!...
He had been looking forward to this date ever since that midsummer’s night last year, when he and his friend Ole finally made up their mind and decided to go a travel agency the next day and book it...

Love Stories
This is the story of two lovers travelling through Europe. They have already been hopping on and off trains for nearly a month, with only each other to talk to...
It would be the last time that this night train would follow this beautiful rail track beside the Rhine to Cologne...
Six o‘ clock in the morning. I am walking along the Rhine. The pleasure boats are still safely tied to the river bank...
It was cold - so cold that the air froze in my nose as I breathed...
Already 12:30! - she wakes up with a start and realizes that she has fallen asleep sitting at her desk...
The train entered the station like a rocket. The station was more crowded than usual...
Ooops! That was a very clear "No" and Laurence looked around to see whether anybody had been watching them...
With a heavy sigh the young man sat down on the seat. Already he felt panic creeping up on him like a thief in the night...
It was a kind day on the Island. Wonderful clouds cast shadows on the mountains and they moved silently away pushed by the gently morning breeze...
Happy like she hasn't been before for a long time, Julia enters the dining car for having lunch...
We were on my way to my parents’ 20th wedding anniversary.
"They are all lying", he thought entering the Hamburg central railway station