"LOVE ALWAYS returns like an echo. The words often crossed his mind. Coming like the wind, mercilessly separating the dry leaves of the branches, leaving chaos in his heart. He felt lonely. He read many years ago. Perhaps, in a dime novel. Just like a person with a gloomy heart, he was easily moved by the beautiful words.Actually, those words contained more grief than beauty. But, don't you think that grief gives birth to such beauty? One said that the exquisite flute sound was actually a lamented grief in the past .... Words are meant to be a secret window to understand a person's heart that suddenly appears in someone else's life. As it happened that night...."This book contains 9 selected stories (short-fictions) by Cecep Syamsul Hari, an Indonesian poet and writer; translated from Indonesian into English by Narudin.