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What if everyone sees something that isn't there?
A story with Mila and Leo about friendship, expectations and a photo that suddenly goes around.
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Right in the middle of life: characters go through something, and you decide what you think.
Family & Expectations · Nora · 2 min readThe jacket
Nora's dad hopes she'll take over his electrical business one day. She wants something else, but all she says is "maybe." How long can that last?
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Friendship & Promises · Nora · 2 min readTwo places at once
Nora promised the same Saturday afternoon twice: to her grandma and to her best friend. A quick text canceling one of them would be easy. It wouldn't be fair.
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Money & Honesty · Nora · 2 min readThe coat
Nora spends four Saturdays' pay on an expensive coat because it was in her feed for a week. Now it hangs unworn in her closet, and her brother asks why.
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Perspective · Mila and Leo · 2 min readTwo angles
Mila and Leo have to share one wall for the exhibition. He wants to be done in ten minutes, she wants to figure out the light first. Who gives in?
Read the story →Friendship & Love · Mila and Leo · 2 min readFriends or more?
After the movies, someone posts a photo of Mila and Leo with a heart in the class chat. Everyone thinks they know what's going on. The two of them don't know yet.
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Respect & Courage · Mila and Leo · 2 min readFitting in
Leo's basketball friends laugh at a younger kid and film him. Leo laughs along until he sees the way Mila is looking at him. Does he stick with his friends or speak up?
Read the story →Two points of view on the same moment. Both are right, or neither.
A dilemma, told briefly. No ready-made answer, just better questions.
How to say no to a friend
No is a complete sentence. The reason is optional. Everyone knows that, and almost nobody manages it. Here is why, and what you can practice instead.
→The Question · Friendship & LoveCrush or just friends?
You get along really well with someone. And suddenly everyone is asking if there's something more. Maybe you're asking yourself too. Here's what helps, and what doesn't.
→What's behind it? Clear, factual, with places that can help.
Head full?
It's eleven at night and your head has 27 tabs open. Today's conversation, tomorrow's list, one question you haven't asked anyone. You are not broken. You are full.
→A Closer Look · Respect & CourageWhen everyone laughs
Almost everyone has laughed along at something that wasn't funny. That doesn't make anyone a bad person. What matters is what happens next.
→A Closer Look · Privacy & Digital BoundariesA photo of you is online, and you didn't say yes
A snapshot in the group chat, a video in someone's story, a picture with a comment underneath. That can feel awful. There are things you can do.
→Each pair tells a different time of life. You can look in anywhere.
The beginning: the first meeting, the first message, the first date.
The relationship: a couple and best friends, together for five months.
The friendship: two you might know from the Wirtschaftsschweinchen. Coming soon to ELSEWISE.
The future together: college, training, a first place of their own. Coming later.
Eight worlds where everything comes together
Mind & Feelings
Why does your head get loud exactly when things finally go quiet?
→KLARTEXTFriendship & Love
How much honesty can a friendship take?
→KEIN PLAN?Choices & Future
What if you do not know yet where you want to go?
→ALTE SCHULERespect & Values
Is the right thing always the easiest?
→ALTE SCHULE · KLARTEXTFamily & Life
Can you love your family and still go your own way?
→KEIN PLAN?Money & Independence
What is something really worth to you?
→NICHT OKAY. · KLARTEXTOnline & Offline
What actually stays private?
→KOPF VOLL? · KEIN PLAN?School & Pressure
What's it all for, anyway?
→Discussion and classroom materials are being developed for some stories. They're published by FLITCH. The stories on ELSEWISE stay free.
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