Fiction
April 2018
Two cigarettes
by Flavio Gomes
“It is late afternoon. You get in the car without saying anything and ask: shall we? You say yes with a gesture and show me the way. After half an hour I ask if you brought your clothes and your toothbrush. The brush does answer me. ” So, without a pre-existing history, a lonely forty-something architect and a mysterious young woman with big green eyes who never spoke about the past meet for the first time for a journey with no destination. Chance, which unites and separates two lives, leads the characters in the debut novel by journalist Flavio Gomes on a journey that passes through the interior of Minas, small German cities, São Paulo, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Itacaré, Budapest, Prague and Strasbourg , without one ever knowing enough of the other to imagine a possible end.
