Imperial Literature

It started with five words. Not entirely innocent words, but only five – though I remember that the other affair, the one that shook our lives to the core, had also been started by only five words. Maybe that’s why I said yes so quickly, because it felt in a way as if I was brought back to happier times, before there only remained two out of the three of us.

“Let’s have dinner together tonight.”

Funny, how five words can lead to much bigger things. Read the rest of this entry →