Antologia De Micro Relatos Eroticos - Jos Lira.... Page

Critics have compared Lira’s economy of language to the greats of micro-fiction like Augusto Monterroso, but with the sensual pulse of Anaïs Nin. However, unlike Nin’s sprawling diaries, Lira’s work is lean.

A standout piece, "El Asensor" (The Elevator), traps two strangers in a broken elevator. Nothing physical happens. A man notices the scent of jasmine perfume on the woman’s wrist as she checks her phone. He doesn't touch her. He touches the light button. The entire erotic climax is the shared acknowledgment of the silence between floors. Unlike many erotic authors who end at the orgasm, Lira is interested in what comes after. The final stories in the anthology are devastatingly beautiful. They explore the emptiness of a hotel room after a one-night stand, or the phantom memory of a hand on a thigh during a boring office meeting three days later. Antologia de Micro Relatos Eroticos - JOS LIRA....

One critic from Revista Narrativa Breve wrote: "Jos Lira has done for the erotic genre what haiku did for nature poetry. He has reduced it to its purest essence: a single moment of connection, frozen in amber." Critics have compared Lira’s economy of language to