Sharing a Flame
Annette Mattsson
We meet, we fall in love. We start to share a flame – but are we able to keep it alive? The couples in these short stories have all lived together for a long time and are very attached to one another. All the same, they challenge themselves and their partners. They seek to destroy and they attempt to repair. They seek revenge and they experience love. They are afraid to lose, but they are also afraid and tired of being held too tightly.
The stories are about arguing while on holiday in Italy, about being thrown out of the car in a foreign environment. They are about people who can’t live together but can’t live alone. They are about a man who finds that the criteria for happiness change as he ages. They are about phone conversations in the night and about lovers who never, ever forget.
