The intimate motivation that drove Jordi Cussà (Berga, 1961—2021) during a good part of his literary life is perfectly summarized by his soul mate Jaume Huch in the letter-epilogue that closes Actuació de gala, the consistent and heterogeneous volume of unpublished short stories now published by Comanegra. Huch addresses Cussà posthumously and tells him that, from a certain moment in his trajectory, you had “already more than sufficiently demonstrated [...] that you were no junkie who wrote, but a writer who had been a junkie”. From how Huch says it, it is clear that this issue troubled Cussà.