Paradise Bar

In their nakedness many displayed marks of the past: scars from stabs in the stomach, star-shaped bullet wounds, wrinkles from love brawls, caesarian stitches from butchers. Some of them brought their youngest children with them during the day, unfortunate fruits of youthful despair or carelessness, who they stripped upon entering so that they wouldn't feel out of place in that paradise of nudity.

Love in the Time of Cholera