Book two · A novella · In preparation
Libra Woman
Back in Cojímar, attraction becomes a contest of patience, pride, and the things left unsaid.
A writer of reckonings
Ernest
Torrs
The stories we carry.
The lives we leave changed.
Fiction at the meeting of desire and consequence.
Always, somewhere, the sea.
A name on the page. A world beyond it.
01 / The author
A pen name,
and a deliberate one.
Ernest Torrs is a pen name, carried on purpose.
The work is where he chooses to be known.
Behind it is a writer preoccupied with a single question: how a human being is assembled, and what it costs to stay hidden inside one’s own life.
His work moves between forms — a series of novellas told one sign at a time, and a philosophical memoir — but the concerns never change: fate and consequence, desire and restraint, and the interior a person will do almost anything not to show.
No face, no biography to lean on. If the pages cannot earn your attention by themselves, a photograph of their author should not be allowed to.
NO FACE. ONLY THE WORK.The question beneath the stories
What do we owe
the people who love us?
Desire begins the story. What follows gives it its weight.
02 / The books
Everything
he has written.
One writer, working across forms —
and the work still being written.
Cancer Man’s Chapters · A series by Ernest Torrs
One man. Twelve women. Twelve signs.
Book one · A novella · Kindle & paperback
Gemini Woman
Cuba, 1994. Every night, the power died.
The married woman next door.
She was thirty-five, married, and lived a few meters away. He was twenty-one, and he gave her nothing — and the not-doing is what undid her.
Decades later, on a porch in the Florida Keys, he is ready to confess.
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Book three · A novella · In preparation
Capricorn Woman
Galicia. An ancestral document. A secret that changes the way a man understands his own life.
The series has a world of its own.Enter Cancer Man’s Chapters
Also by Ernest Torrs
A philosophical memoir · In progress
Just Read Me
The Complexity of a Human Existence
A boy stands alone on a storm-grey shore and watches a stranger die — and feels nothing. No horror, no grief, not even the fear a child is owed. Just Read Me follows the stillness that opened in him that day, and asks what it means to be the composite, contradictory creature a human being is.
A new work · Coming
Gemini Woman · The trailer
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03 / The writing
Where silence
becomes story.
The untold part of a life is often the part that matters most.
Desire and its consequences
Love moves through existing lives. Families, loyalties, and private histories come with it. The stories stay with what happens after the first moment of attraction.
Memory and the telling
Every story is told by someone with a reason to tell it. Memory edits, the teller hesitates, and what is finally said changes the one who says it.
The sea, always
From Cojímar to the Florida Keys and the shores of Galicia, water holds the promise of departure and the weight of everything left behind.
The places within the pages
Across an ocean.
Into a life.
London. Cojímar. Islamorada. Galicia.
Different shores, joined by the stories carried between them.
Questions
Before
you ask.
Is Ernest Torrs a real name?
No. Ernest Torrs is a pen name, carried on purpose, and there is no author photo. The work is meant to stand on its own: if the pages cannot earn your attention by themselves, a face and a biography should not be allowed to.
What is Cancer Man’s Chapters?
A series of novellas by Ernest Torrs: one man, twelve women, twelve signs. Each book follows a different woman and the mark she leaves on the man at the center. Gemini Woman is Book One; Libra Woman and Capricorn Woman are in preparation.
In what order should I read them?
In order, beginning with Gemini Woman. Each novella follows a different woman, and read in sequence they follow one man’s life as it unfolds.
Where can I read Gemini Woman?
On Amazon, in Kindle and paperback editions. With Kindle Unlimited, the ebook is free to read. Open it on Amazon.
Will there be a Spanish edition?
Yes. A Spanish edition of Gemini Woman is in preparation. There is no date yet; the list below will hear first.
When can I read Just Read Me?
It is being written now, and there is no release date yet. Nothing here will pretend otherwise. Join the list to hear first.
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