Mad Love
We
never walk hand-in-hand, we are zombies in a hypnotic routine
It
steals our dreams, it ruins our agenda
Performing
ordinary tasks in a non-future vacuum
I always read the previous day's papers,
picked up in the trash.
No
problem, life has no hurry. Yesterday things still exist today.
What
is left is my dirty finger-paint, leaving fingerprints on the water.
I
need to shave. I need a new face.
Our
shoulders touched, so embarrassing
I
looked into her eyes but I did not see me reflected there.
What
a saw were her first wrinkles. Embarrassing.
I
need to get out of here. As soon as now.
It
is so tight that it does not fit anymore
Our mad, straightjacket love
Cristina
Bresser de Campos
Cristina
Bresser de Campos, graduated by Universidade Federal do Parana in Graphic
Design. She has two published books, both in Portuguese: Torre de Papel (Paper
Tower) in 2015 - short stories anthology with other authors. “Quase tudo é
risível” (Almost Everything is Laughable) a novel, Nov 2016. Also in 2016
received a prize from Centro de Letras da Universidade Federal de Fortaleza for
the short story Capitolium.
In
2017, three honorable mentions in Brazilian’s short stories contests: Prêmio
Literário da AMULMIG de Prosa e Poesia 2017 by Academia de Letras de Minas
Gerais, IV Concurso Cultural de Microcontos by Biblioteca Municipal e
Araraquara, II Concurso ALAP "Paranavaí Literária". She has short
stories and literary chronicles in some Brazilian literary journals such as:
Revista Philos, JornalRelevO, Revista Escriva, revista gueto, mallamargens,
Plástico Bolha, Revista EMA, Revista LiteraLivre, Trema Comunidade Literária,
Jornal Leôncio.
She
studied Creative Writing at University of Edinburgh in 2016. She has some short
stories and poems published in English by American, British, Greek and Indian
literary magazines. In 2017:Northern Light, 121 Words, Ariel Chart, Wanton
Fuckery Poetry, A New Ulster, The Silver Streams, Bashabandhan Literary Review,
The University of Edinburgh Journal, Flight Writing, The Runt Zine, Red Queen
Literary Magazine, Star 82 Review, Dodging the Rain, Quail Bell Magazine. In
2018, Former Cactus Lit., Flucky Fiction (a short story and a poem in this
printed anthology), Wildflower Muse, Nous, Thrice Magazine, Déraciné
Photograph
published by literary magazines: Escapism, Dodging the Rain, *82 Review, The
Free Library-Internet Void, 805 Literary Magazine.
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