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by Şerban Andrei Mazilu “Madness is so boring, isn’t it, Lewis? Yeeees… So utterly mundane, so predictable when you start noticing the pattern. Look at you, man! You’re doing the mouse thing. The crazy old bastard, petting his little minion in a deranged and fanatic way, until there’s no life inside the poor creature… […]
by Şerban Andrei Mazilu “Behold!” he said, opening his arms as to embrace the mountain-sized beast made of blues and greens and cyans and turquoise, and a little sandy-beige gradient where its hair was suppose to be. “The LEVIATHAN!” “The Leviathan? What’s a Leviathan?” I asked all-puzzled, for I had never seen such a […]
by Patrick Călinescu How can I become a great stylist in English (for I have long been wanting to be become one), when I’m in the middle of bloody nowhere, and nowhere to be seen anywhere in the four corners of the English-speaking world? How can I become my finest, yet dream-y, accomplishment with […]
by Oliviu Crâznic Sweet shadows, a kiss like morning dew She plays the piano, summoning my obsession Gentle and shy, she waits for my confession From many things I’m feeling, I’m saying but a few. The others are not looking, she’s passing me the key Shaped all in gold and tears, for […]
[Millennium Books Publishing House, 2012] (a reader’s guide to fantasy [3]) by Oliviu Crâznic translation from Romanian by Cristina Baciu [MTTLC student] click aici pentru versiunea română Fiction writer (Madia Mangalena, Despre singurătate şi îngeri, Aşteptând-o pe Sara, Povestiri fantastice, Povestea lui Calistrat Hadâmbu), critic (Nu sunt guru, …nici Torquemada), editor, collections coordinator […]
by Ştefan Bolea translation from Romanian by Raisa Lambru [MTTLC student] click pentru versiunea română / cliquez ici pour la version française The war has started. I am undercover. Only those who can see the other side may realize that I’m wearing the enemy’s uniform. The uniform of the non-human, of the monster. (In […]
by A. R. Deleanu translation from Romanian by Nigel Walker and Gianina-Aniela Câşleanu [MTTLC student] click aici pentru versiunea română When the creature went past his car, flashing on and off, like lightening in the night, the traveller knew he had to pull over. He couldn’t see what it was. A dog, a […]
(from atheism to agnosticism and back) [IV] by Ştefan Bolea click aici pentru versiunea română “I want to die in a tavern, where wine is close to the mouth of the dying man.” (Carmina burana) I bought Minois’s newly translated book into English for my birthday: Georges Minois, The Atheist’s Bible: The Most […]
[homage to El Greco and Nikos Kazantzakis] by Martin Burke From REPORT TO GRECO by NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS (1) Not night, not yet, yet I gather sight and speech to speak against the dark; night’s-owl that I am watchful from tree-branch and turret or battle-steeple; non-neutral observer, partisan of that radiant dark deeper than night […]
click aici pentru versiunea română Continuum (previously published in Altered Scale in the original English) We multiply best in open bodies with low mass indices swarm and flock cluster and conjoin