e-revista EgoPHobia - ISSN 1584-6210
by Răzvan Petrescu [Romania] Translation from Romanian by Dorothy McCarthy and Iris Butnariu, MTTLC student pentru versiunea română click aici `Mr. Prosecutor, I am innocent!’ `Sure, they all say that…’ The magistrate sat clasped in his armchair, gnawing his nails, with a blank look on his face. The clerk’s quill was running across the […]
By Adrian Ioniţă [USA] Translation from Romanian by A C Clarke and Monica Ţone, MTTLC edited by Robert Fenhagen pentru versiunea română click aici After a claustrophobic, heavy winter, this outing in the park was a voluntary exile in fascination. Ish went crazy in the grass, spreading a cloud of cottony dandelion […]
by Ion Buzu (Republica Moldova) Translation from Romanian: Maria Jastrzebska and Mircea Filimon, MTTLC student pentru versiunea română click aici It was during that time when I was doing extramural studies at the university and I very rarely went in. I only had classes two weeks a term – a couple of hours each – […]
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 […]