Asphyxia

Pleasure is a succession of small pains.
Feeling everything through one hand. Through two hands clasped. Two strangers holding hands. The hands of two strangers telling each other stories, surrendering to each other, laughing with each other, laughing a lot, not being afraid of each other or of anything, not knowing anything about each other, nor what it was nor what would come next, resting upon each other and together forgetting this weariness of life.

Small fictions based on "true stories," in which distinct universes (which can nonetheless be seen as a whole) are explored in clear, concise, ironic, and poetic prose. Sensitive and contemporary writing about love, desire, despair, searching, meeting and parting, loneliness, death, and also hope. A collection of exceptional texts with evocative titles such as, Troubled Love, The Last Duchess, Ward G., Anamnesis, Hands, The Club of the Mortally Wounded, The Forbidden Man, Where the Servants Sleep, The Man Who Stopped Reading.