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by Andrei Trocea (Romania) Translation from Romanian by Fawzia Kane and Alexandra Sârbu, MTTLC graduate pentru versiunea română click aici “They entered one into the other and didn’t fit in” We make birds out of feathers and then hang them in the sky like garlands in a fir. Two buildings face one another, isolated from […]
Gorun Manolescu (Romania) Translation from Romanian: Alexandra Sârbu, MTTLC graduate pentru versiunea română click aici You will enter that room with calcio-vecchio walls and iridescent dust motes when the sick sun shines over the hot heavy afternoons when the light vibrates thick and sensual and the senses get fully sharpened while a vertigo seizes you; […]
by Sorin-Mihai Grad [Germany] Translation from Romanian by Carmen Gaspar, MTTLC student edited by Robert Fenhagen pentru versiunea română click aici I haven’t been to the doctor’s to get a proper diagnosis, but I think it’s a strain–I’m almost certain it’s not a break. Oh, I hate being hurt. We had planned to go […]
by Alexandru Potcoavă [Romania] translation by Philippa Lawrence and Alina-Olimpia Miron pentru versiunea română click aici A tea party! A tea party! ‘A cup of ‘tea’, anyone?’ asked Pista, the caretaker. ‘Your tea will be the death of us!’ laughed young, pregnant Mrs Kurzweil from Apartment 7 who was dressed in an exquisite black sequinned evening […]
Ştefan Bolea (Romania) Translation from Romanian by A C Clarke and Mircea Filimon, MTTLC student pentru versiunea română click aici ‘Whatever may be said to the contrary, such cases do occur – rarely…’ (Gogol) Monday morning Alex woke up without a penis. It had happened before that his cock had shrunk from wearing leather trousers […]
by Carmen Firan [USA] translation from Romanian by Iris Butnariu [MTTLC student] pentru versiunea română click aici It was not Tuesday, nor the 13th, but since morning I had the feeling that things would not go well at all. The lawyer told me at the last minute that he could not come with me to […]
by Mircea Daneliuc [Romania] translated from Romanian by Nigel Walker & Alina-Olimpia Miron [MTTLC student] pentru versiunea română click aici Ştefi got off the tram and opened his umbrella. It had been raining since morning. Actually, it had rained all night long; he hadn’t slept well and having awoken with a start several times, he had […]
by Răzvan Petrescu [Romania] translation from Romanian by Pat Earnshaw & Alina-Olimpia Miron [MTTLC student] pentru versiunea română click aici Exactly two weeks before my wedding day, my upstairs neighbour forgot to turn off his kitchen tap. He left it running and everything underneath it was flooded. A large abstract design of greenish hue appeared […]
by Adrian Sângeorzan [USA] translated from Romanian by Caroline Carver & Iris Butnariu [MTTLC student] pentru versiunea română click aici I started liking her when I saw her taking blood samples from sick people. When she pricked them with the needle which seemed like a natural continuation of her long and thin fingers, not […]
by Robert Serban [România] translated from Romanian by Oana-Manuela Mihai [MTTLC student] pentru versiunea română click aici For as long as he could remember Sandu Ghiran had worked like a slave, except he wasn’t a slave because he worked for himself alone. He had toiled like a beast since he was a child until now […]