About these stories
About these stories
- Authorship — All texts are by “Libersum.” Please do not reproduce them in full without permission. If you quote, use: “by Libersum. 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.
THE STORIES:
- The Selection – The National Team
by Libersum
A poetic story about the National Team, the end of childhood fields, urban violence, and Brazil’s fading genius of play.
- BR-364 — The Road Wanderer
by Libersum
A successful lawyer abandons São Paulo and becomes a road wanderer on BR-364, crossing Brazil toward silence, freedom and disappearance.
- Kiko, the Madman
by Libersum
Every small town had its “madman”. Years later, perhaps Kiko, Pedro da Mala and Cálculo were not so different from us.
- THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS
by Libersum
A cosmic report on Earth, Gaia, time and civilizations, in which alien scribes record human progress, power and extinction.
- Amerindia, the Singular
by Libersum
Amerindia portrays a modern empire that manages death efficiently and flees happiness through amusement, amid war, power, and barbarism.
- THE COIN
by Libersum
Two ideal sisters are born from a coin and become rival poles. An allegory of polarization, conflicting values and collective noise.
- Cosmic Currents
by Libersum
A tale where the cosmos examines us through science, spirituality and responsibility, echoing the Fermi Paradox and the Drake Equation.
- Labyrinth of Id
by Libersum
On social media, a double takes over speech and life. A story about split personality, identity, masks and a body at war with itself.
- Maya’s Veil
by Libersum
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 Libersum
Quintus Flaccus catalogues films he never watches. As his streaming services expire, he learns that no list teaches how to use time.
- The Meeting at the River
by Libersum
Two twins meet again by a river after one travelled at the speed of light. A story about relativity of time, memory and eternity.
- The City of the Holly Grove and the Aesthetic Decline
by Libersum
An invisible city of holly groves and mirrors becomes an allegory of aesthetic decline, where appearance triumphs over form and feeling replaces thought.
- Slaves
by Libersum
A literary essay on slavery, servitude, power and voluntary servitude, from Antiquity to modern forms of domination.
