Breaking sugar

" In “Breaking Sugar”, arguably the single most tender and beautiful story in the collection, breaking a sugar cube with a hammer in the darkness, in order to release a violet burst of light, is used as a metaphor for sex, for reasonably violent physical contact, which releases a different kind of truth than the standard, spiritual, kind."
Shigekun

Found this in the Net when I googled "A.L.Kennedy Breaking Sugar", it's a short story I read today, I wanted to share it with you all, I just loved it. The book is called "Original Bliss".

I want

"That's all we've got." When I held my breath to watch his face, I knew I loved him: I could hear it - like the pause before sunrise, or the small drumming of clean rain.
"Do you think I could feel your skin again ?"
"If you want."
"I want."
And for one complete moment, "I want" was the absolute truth.

A.L. Kennedy, at end of Groucho's Moustache