Odette (An Evocation)
by Oliviu Crâznic Last chapter of our future, the sun about to set, I carve your name in marble – so come to me, Odette!… A warning to the lover, the night we were to met: “One watchword is Forever!, the other one – Forget!”.
Bob’s endeavor
by Călin Torsan translated into English by Mihai Andrei Fulgescu He was a writer, but he had never made money out of it. Moreso, he hadn’t even been capable of winning a single literature contest. So after that 2-hour walk in the park with Alice, having endured the cold and rubbish spouted by her to […]
poems by T.S. Hidalgo
Insomnia Saigon, shit: it’s Saigon, it’s jet lag, and I’m not a big Valium fan, or of counting sheep (or of reading Conrad),
poems by James Croal Jackson
Umbrella In the lips of thunder, we never feel full as rain slips from our mouths– the brick streets are slicked with histories we will not yet slip. Sediment lodged in the curb will displace in time. Our tongues slicken in the dry we create so we thirst for the wet we tried simply […]
poems by Rus Khomutoff
This is not a method O blacklist of preeminence louder than life itself countdown sequence of aired mysterious booms natural coction the shadow of a shadow of an obtainable new order to bathe in the splendor of lathe and labyrinth as momentum grows that bold and legitimate certainty of endlessly repeating variations and recollections […]
The Saṃsāra Dictionary
by Ștefan Bolea translation from Romanian by A.C. Clarke and Alina-Olimpia Miron [MTTLC] Arthur Schopenhauer (b. 22 February 1778, d. 21 September 1860, reborn on 17 November 1944) – German philosopher, famous for The World as Will and Representation, a treaty that aims at solving the issue of Kant’s unknowable noumenon. He was fonder of […]
The Losers Masquerade
by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Nigel Walker and Alina-Olimpia Miron [MTTLC] I had staked them out ever since morning – they were both on horseback, coming from somewhere in the South, which meant they could be from my brother’s army or Herbert’s army as well. There was no way of knowing yet – […]
Terra firma
by Paul Belce Motto: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the […]
Carmen Sylva – the Forgotten Writer
by Ana-Maria Negrilă Introduction Elisabeth Pauline Ottilie Luise zu Wied, later known as Carmen Sylva, was born in 1843 in Neuwield and became queen of Romania in 1869 when she married Carol I, who had been crowned the king of Romanian United Principalities (Wallahia and Moldavia) three years before. He was the first member of […]
In Whitman’s Name
by Ștefan Bolea translation from Romanian by A.C. Clarke and Alina-Olimpia Miron [MTTLC] Iancu threw his shopping bag into the musty space under the steeple of St. Michael’s Church, after which he shut the trap door behind him. It was a late spring morning and, from his standpoint, the young man could enjoy a […]