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Star Wars – Marauder

by Şerban Andrei Mazilu     Chain lightning struck the horizon, over the thick jungle and the untamed wilderness beyond the city walls. Terrible beasts prowled the in darkness, unaffected by the constant electric storms that ravaged Dromund Kaas. Somewhere a slave was being ripped to pieces by a pack of giant reptiles – just […]

School Night

by Şerban Andrei Mazilu     Laine took a drag from her long ivory pipe, enjoying the calming effect of the illegal smoldering herb. Her absinth gaze fell in a melancholic manner over the half-naked body next to her, following the delicate outline of the woman’s marble back and half breast she revealed. She partially […]

Reccurence

by Şerban Andrei Mazilu   Felix woke up in a pool of sweat, the dry suffocating atmosphere in his bedroom rising to unbearable levels. He groaned like a drunk and pushed himself up, noticing the stain on the dirty, uncovered mattress. His head spun and hurt like a thousand sledgehammers slamming together against the largest […]

Madness Actually

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… […]

Levi

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 […]

An outburst of sincerity

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 […]

Elnora’s Gate

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 […]

Romanian fantasy  literature: Michael Haulică – “Transfer”

[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 […]

Psychopomp

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 […]

The Concierge

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 […]

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