"No quisimos ser soldados" immerses us in the lives of three anonymous men who find refuge in sex, a place where desire and intimacy become their only salvation against fear, heartbreak, and the danger of loving outside heterosexual norms. Francisco Javier Olivas offers us a raw and powerful narrative, where love, pain, and self-discovery intertwine in a setting marked by repression and the struggle for identity. Through these characters, Olivas explores three impossible-to-unite stories: a man facing the uncertainty of a possibly final goodbye, another whose soul has been disfigured by hatred, and a third who, in the intimacy of a bedroom, hides his true identity to survive in a world that marginalizes him. Each intimate encounter is an act of resistance, a cry for sexual and emotional freedom in times when exclusivity and heteronormativity are imposed as absolute norms. Olivas’s fourth novel is a hymn to authenticity, an invitation to dive into the complexities of desire and love in a world that still condemns difference. It is a story where the body becomes a battlefield and love, in its purest form, defies all conventions.