The Possession of Alba Díaz

by Isabel Cañas

funny that she should say that, because he also did not like himself and also did not want to die.

But then she was forced to speak to men, and the fantasies dissolved like sugar in hot water, leaving a fading sweetness that quickly turned stale between teeth.

Or perhaps Alba had simply found herself surrounded by idiots and had decided that Elías was a slightly more compassionate idiot than her narcissist in-laws-to-be and parents.

“How sad that that’s the closest you’ll ever come to him fucking you. He never will, and you know it, and still you weep in the dark about it.

men who had been promised violence and denied it for years,