About these storie

About these stories

• Authorship — All texts are by “M. – Liber Sum.” Please do not reproduce them in full without permission. If you quote, use: “by M. – Liber Sum. All rights reserved.”
• Fiction — Even when they touch essay, memory, or philosophical commentary, these pieces are fiction. Some characters are invented; others are real, treated fictionally; others are real names placed in imagined situations; and sometimes figures from other authors appear.
• Notes — Some stories include numbered notes. Part of these notes engages with real facts; others are inventions of the author. The game is for the reader to tell them apart.
• Comments — Welcome and desired. Share readings, doubts, dissent, questions.
• Meanings — Metaphors are everywhere; names and phrases can carry more than one meaning. “Open” endings invite the reader to take part. There is no single correct interpretation. Once published, the story also belongs to the reader.

This is a shared journey. Let us build the literature together.

FOLLOWING, THE STORIES:

• THE COIN
  by M. – Liber Sum
  Allegory of polarization: two ideal-sisters are born from a coin and become rival poles. Amid noise and raised altars, how can we live with clashing values?
• Cosmic Currents
  by M. – Liber Sum
  A narrator listens to what the sky says as great figures cross the tale. Between the lines, an exam emerges—not of us over the cosmos, but of the cosmos over us. A story about civilizational fragility, science, spirituality, and responsibility—touching the Fermi Paradox and the Drake Equation.
• Labyrinth of Id
  by M. – Liber Sum
  On social media, we create versions of ourselves—different from the real self. What if a double took the voice—and the life? In this story, the experiment is pushed to the limit and exacts its price: when the mask fails, what remains is a body at war and a maze with no exit. A tale about identity, disguise, and split personality.
• Maya’s Veil
  by M. – Liber Sum
  Maya’s Veil is a dystopian short story about artificial intelligence: in a world ruled by AIs, absolute comfort turns humans into ornaments. A philosophical narrative on will, representation, and freedom.
• Quintus Flaccus, the Selector
  by M. – Liber Sum
  A man who catalogs films with devotion but never watches them receives a fatal notice: seven months left. In the hum of an unseen projector, he must decide what to do with the time that slips away.
• The Meeting at the River
  by M. – Liber Sum
  Two twins meet again on the bank of a river. One has traveled through the cosmos at the speed of light; the other has remained on Earth. A short story about the relativity of time, memory, and eternity.
• The City of the Holly Grove and the Aesthetic Decline
  by M. – Liber Sum
  In an invisible city surrounded by holly groves and mirrors, a caretaker witnesses the triumph of appearance over form. The City of the Holly Grove is an allegory about aesthetic decline, the confusion between art and applause, and the replacement of thinking with mere feeling.