Acosmos and the Story Lovers

Two people meet and discover they share a love of acting, telling stories and reading Roland Barthes. They agree to meet up two or three times a month and exchange haikus and stories that occur to them after reading Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments.As their stories are exchanged the couple’s relationship develops, changes, and reaches a strange climax.The collections of stories are entertaining, witty, sometimes shocking and poke fun at the dour and laboured Fragments of Roland Barthes, posing the question of what the meaning of a story is if it is to be part of an exchange and what in life is not exchanged?