A Footbridge to Hell Called Love (Paperback) Moazzam Sheikh Excellent
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A Footbridge to Hell Called Love (Paperback) Moazzam Sheikh
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First novella from Moazzam Sheikh's San Francisco Quartet, a slow motion walkthrough in pre-pandemic San Francisco.
He couldn't tell her, not yet, but thought about it, wished he could, that when he made love to her, he resisted thinking about Manto's famous short story Thanda Gosht. That in turn made him revisit a rather mediocre French noirish film Icy Breasts, although the connections between the blue meat metaphor of the story and Alain Delon's cold stare thriller were a stretch of the imagination. He couldn't help it. He could never muster the courage to ask her whether she closed her eyes because she couldn't stand looking at his face or preferred conjuring up the image of someone in her past, lost in the crowd, someone dead. He allowed himself to marvel at the possibility that deposits of coldness could hide and survive even beneath the warm flesh. His sight ravished the ethereally lucid beauty of her face, his nose inhaling the micro smells of her freckled skin as his tongue and lips devoured the salt mines of her bruised terrain. He didn't know, couldn't know, behind the closed windows of her eyes, if she was soulful or icy. Mostly he believed that it was her, or most women's, way of focusing, not on the person but pleasure. To him pleasure was secondary to pleasing, but both were su
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