He sets off, a few steps ahead of me. I follow him.

I was looking at the sky when suddenly a shower of bullets pierced my chest.

I leave and return with a large piece of sky.

You want me to grant your wish, you must satisfy my need.

By the way, how old am I? I can’t remember.

Each text requires a different voice, a different English.

Authors are translators and translators are authors.

Translators are often congratulated, but never admired.

The national sport of Spain, not counting soccer, is drinking cold beer and eating tapas.

She was now sitting half-naked in front of the door.

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The queer world is shaking.

Blind to one another, two empires face off across a vast expanse

As long as the image of the enemy is being concocted out of gays, I must make all my public statements exclusively as a gay man.

As they wearied, the whips would fall from their hands.

like some awesome Saturday night exoticdancer at the apocalypse

That way we could both have our own family, but carry on seeing each other in secret.


behind us a lake brimmed with the noise of crows

Her Swiss friend had assured her that she was no longer the only lesbian in Yugoslavia.