Days of the Sidewalk

The story is this: nothing is more terrifying than the accidental encounter of a couple, a few days after separation, especially beside another man or another woman. Everything becomes fresh again: the smiles, the pains, and the walls. How quickly we came together and how quickly we fell apart. “Lies have a body. What is not, cannot be a lie. A lie fills the volume where truth should have been. Lies are always about something, and anything about anything is an explanation of it, even if it is a lie.”