"B.I.O. Chip or The Right Ear.

In February 2006, a Berlin newspaper announced a writing competition called "Berlitopia" in which new writers could take part on the topic of a future Berlin. KRISCHAN reached the final round with his short story B.I.O. Chip, which plays the search for a murderer in an overpopulated metropolis of the future.

"At first there is only darkness.
Then there is music.
Opera music.
Wagner.
…

I slowly rose from the bottom of the Rhine out of my puddle and looked at my hands in horror. Of course they were full of blood, but in my right hand I felt a foreign body, a crumb, a fragment!

A chip fragment ..."