Extracts From: Two Lives In A Chat

By Simona Rea

“Those messages are crumbs, filling an empty pot, it’s just the beginning.
Esmeralda is a fatal beautiful lady like Morgan le Fay, she’s offering her mystery without knowing why. Paolo is the fearless man who wants to conquer quietly. They look like two teenagers.”


Esmeralda, a young successful interior designer, can’t sleep on a hot summer night. She’s bored and she thrusts her arm forward to take her phone on the bedside table. She starts scrolling through posts on Facebook, without thinking about anything, it’s just a game. She touches the phone by mistake and she adds “a new friend”, Paolo Marotta, a school friend, who has become a warehouse worker, a loser, a night wanderer, living a life that doesn’t suit him. That’s how it starts the illness of the modern world: the chat. Virtually, they talk about their life and their bad moments; they reveal their secrets, feelings, desires, hopes, temptations and forbidden dreams…. The silence of a virtual world lived through text messages becomes a necessity, an unintelligible addiction, what will it happen to them?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gruppo Albatros Il Filo
• Release date: Oct 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9788856796124

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Intro

"Those messages are crumbs, filling an empty pot, it’s just the beginning.

Esmeralda is a fatal beautiful lady like Morgan le Fay, she’s offering her mystery without knowing why. Paolo is the fearless man who wants to conquer quietly. They look like two teenagers."

Esmeralda, a young successful interior designer, can’t sleep on a hot summer night. She’s bored and she thrusts her arm forward to take her phone on the bedside table. She starts scrolling through posts on Facebook, without thinking about anything, it’s just a game. She touches the phone by mistake and she adds a new friend, Paolo Marotta, a school friend, who has become a warehouse worker, a loser, a night wanderer, living a life that doesn’t suit him. That’s how it starts the illness of the modern world: the chat. Virtually, they talk about their life and their bad moments; they reveal their secrets, feelings, desires, hopes, temptations and forbidden dreams…. The silence of a virtual world lived through text messages becomes a necessity, an unintelligible addiction, what will it happen to them?

FIRST CHAPTER FIRST ILLUSIONS

A thought is born in the darkness of half sleep on a summer night, when the heat wakes the deep and tired sleep, when you can't breathe even by opening the windows because the air has become an incessant affliction, it's obsessing, it doesn't get off your back. A thousand and a thousand thoughts, feelings that blend like ghosts in the shadow, they are in Esmeralda's mind. Drawings, sudden visions that perhaps comfort her. A drawer full of dreams, the insistent intolerance of sleepness. Her mind seeks relief, a break, a comfort, maybe another alternative. Despite all the trouble, she needs to recover possession of her body. It's a perception, a sensation that she feels immediately. The sweat sticks to her like oil, but the dented feather pillow tries to get her dry. Esmeralda's anxiety is bothersome, she is alone in her bed and she tries not to open her eyes to keep her boredom at bay. She hears a dog's howling in the distance, the moonlight acts as a lamp and filters in her bedroom. A bedroom full of