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The Rise and Fall of My Roman Empire: A Romance in Three Chapters cover

The Rise and Fall of My Roman Empire: A Romance in Three Chapters

By Phillip Iosca

3 1/4 sized books, 20 pgs. each

I The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even
II This Pretty American Flower
III Le Petit Morte "Life may be the only thing more fragile than love.

"Though both machines are uncertain mechanisms. We breathe and we forget we breathe until, perhaps, that last moment when the lifetime of breathing we took for granted is suddenly taken from us. At least that is how I imagine it. Like a gentle suffocation. The same way you feel, in that first instant a romance ends. Without air. The wind knocked out of you. The moment before you come when you're making love. A combination of ecstasy and the inevitable ending. Le petit morte. The sting of water up your nose swimming as a child, deep inside your head in a place you can't reach. It's all the same. In. Out."

The Rise and Fall of my Roman Empire is limited to an edition of 100 and consists of three volumes each 20 pages long. Each volume is printed, cut and assembled by the author and lined with metallic gold contact paper, wood grain contact paper, and vintage gay porn, respectively.

$30.00