In one of the standout pieces from the anthology, Lira writes a story barely fifty words long: "Apagaron la luz. Él dijo: 'Cuéntame un secreto.' Ella le mordió el hombro. 'Ya no uso ropa interior los jueves.' Él sonrió en la oscuridad. Era miércoles." (Translation: "They turned off the light. He said: 'Tell me a secret.' She bit his shoulder. 'I don't wear underwear on Thursdays.' He smiled in the dark. It was Wednesday." )
Jos Lira operates on a simple principle: Each story in this anthology is a keyhole. You, the reader, press your eye against it and witness a moment of vulnerability, lust, or intimacy. Within sixty seconds of reading, you are transported into a hotel room, a crowded subway, or a memory of a summer rain. In the next sixty seconds, the story is over, but the feeling lingers for hours. Why "Micro"? The Magic of Extreme Brevity One might ask: Why read an Antologia de Micro Relatos Eroticos - JOS LIRA instead of a traditional novella? The answer lies in modern neurology and lifestyle. Antologia de Micro Relatos Eroticos - JOS LIRA....
Buy the paperback or the e-book. Keep it on your nightstand. Read exactly three stories before bed. Let them sit in your mind. The beauty of the micro-relato is its digestibility. One story takes 45 seconds to read but three hours to forget. In one of the standout pieces from the