§6 · The Perfect LawnCanon · Oriana Kraft
Basel suburbs · a Sunday · 1965
Matthias is a doctor. Matthias is a success. He remembers the prison visits, the bankruptcy, the screaming in the kitchen — and covers it all with a perfect lawn and a perfect practice.
“The only thing that matters is family.”
— §6 · Hollow
The object
En Soie silk
Silk from Zurich’s oldest house — the family image, pressed and worn.
ShopCHF 340The ritual
The sins, institutionalized
By 1965 the ledger is hidden and the debts are internal. Matthias pays in therapy sessions he keeps secret from his wife.
The voice
Matthias Paul Kraft
“Have you ever noticed how dead bodies look an awful lot like jam?”
The scene, narrated
Matthias — Chapter 1, Part 1
The private archive
The family history behind the fiction.