There are moments without a future that are very promising. The most promising ones. They are, by their nature, more like places. We live from them. The short prose gathered here spans from the autobiographical narratives in which Ilse Aichinger speaks of childhood and youth in meticulous, intense images, through her writings from the years 1950 to 1985, concise parables that repeatedly address themes of grief, love, and reconciliation through writing, to poetic approaches to Franz Kafka, Georg Trakl, Thomas Bernhard, and others.