A collection of thirty-seven petite, “one-minute” stories told in the first person, inspired by the One Minute Novels of Peter Altenberg, each of which playfully incorporates one of Altenberg’s sentences. Kratochvil’s intelligent puns contain contemplation, self-reflection, suggestion, hints, symbols and allusions hidden between the lines exactly as the post-modern spirit requires, but his fantastic, sensational and hilarious plots should attract unassuming readers as well as more demanding ones.