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This story was crafted with the support of the Writing Club, a space dedicated to storytelling and creative writing practice inside Dance in Conversation community. We are still dancing, as ever, and this time it’s with words. To know more about the club, subscribe to the community newsletter.

Split inside

The connection is lost and no dance, no story, is possible here…

There is no conversation here.

No story to tell. Stop looking for a plot or a hook. The man has no words or signs. Let alone a dance.

He tried, hell-bent, he tried. Restless.

Wasted hours, mind making incessant cart wheels, pretending tango. And no pen gets ever lifted, no keyboard hit. No grounded feet or intention. No move.

A man split inside. Pathless.

How can he move without a soul, how can he trust without himself.

Clumsy being full of techniques and capricious thoughts running like mice. Uncontrolled. And here he comes to the club, a fragile man of glass.

Language lost. Monkey mind.

By Jesus Acosta

At heart, I am a story-teller. As a creative writer and designer, I tell stories on the web, on paper, and sometimes I scribble random lines on the dance floor.