Shapes, colors, noises, hums, spaces, sounds, buildings, people: all are experienced by the senses and routed directly to the drain of the soul – consciousness. There we stand before ourselves, and try to weave everything we have experienced into an orderly picture, through which we can decipher what is called 'life.' But what happens when different voices echo within our own private resonance box, which may not even belong to us?

Like a pole held in both hands by a tightrope walker, the short stories that make up 'Voices' lead the reader along the gray line of consciousness, to the place where the small, lonely drop that is the 'I' merges with the vast ocean that is the world. Using direct language and everyday raw materials, Ziv Ben-Porat Bar engineers his stories in a way that succeeds in eliminating opposites and erasing gaps, so that the outside becomes the inside, the void becomes full, and the surreal becomes the everyday.