The boys were cool, the girls were hot;<\/p>\n
\u201cWe live in freedom\u201d was the rule \u2013<\/p>\n
It was my time, and now it`s not.<\/p>\n
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Le-Fin-de-Si\u00e8cle<\/em>, Age of Hope:<\/p>\n The stars were gazing back at me;<\/p>\n \u201cThere`s fire hidden in the smoke\u201d \u2013<\/p>\n But that was never meant to be.<\/p>\n \n This new Millennium we`re in,<\/p>\n These new old laws, this \u201cNew Thought\u201d rhyme…<\/p>\n I see the sickle on our flag \u2013<\/p>\n So, maybe, it`s my fading time.<\/p>\n \n About the author:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \n OLIVIU CR\u00c2ZNIC<\/strong> [photo by Mihaela Nazarie] is a Romanian national and international awarded novelist, poet, translator, literary critic, anthologist, conferee, former member of \u201cImagicopter: The Author\/Artist Cooperative\u201d (2012-2017) and legal advisor. Born in 1978; his parents, Oliviu and Dorothea, are both certified and distinguished Romanian Language and Literature teachers. He graduated from Faculty of Law with a thesis on Forensic Science (2001) and from Pro Medierea Association`s Conflict Resolution course (2008). His literary career began in 2010, when he published the celebrated Gothic novel \u2026And Then the Nightmare Came at Last<\/em> (Vremea Publishing House). His short stories and novellettes were published alongside those of famous contemporary (George R.R. Martin) or classic (Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, Rudyard Kipling, H.P. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Saki) writers. In 2015, he published the acclaimed short story collection The Witching Hour<\/em> (Crux Publishing House). He is mentioned in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction<\/em> (J. Clute, P. Nicholls) and literary analysis on his works appeared in academic journals such as Equinox Journal<\/em> (Faculty of Letters, \u201cBabe\u0219-Bolyai\u201d University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania). He appeared in Ciprian Mitoceanu`s novellette The Redemption<\/em> (as a literary character). He was invited to speak on various literary themes and topics at Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature \u2013 University of Bucharest, at Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures \u2013 \u201cDimitrie Cantemir\u201d Christian University (alongside Ana-Maria Negril\u0103, PhD), and at Romanian Academy (Romanian Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology). He acted as the moderator of Bucharest International Literature Festival \u2013 special Science Fiction & Fantasy evening (2014) and he was guest author at International Festival of Literature and Translation of Ia\u0219i (2018). He was one of the two jurors (alongside Ana-Maria Negril\u0103, PhD) of the Literary Contest for Students and Graduate Students (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of \u201cDimitrie Cantemir\u201d Christian University, 2018-2020). He is a regular contributor to cultural magazines: EgoPHobia<\/em> (2010-present), Apostrof<\/em> (a Writers` Union of Romania magazine, 2018-present). Author`s Official Facebook Page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oliviucraznicofficialpage<\/em><\/a>. Author`s Official Blog: https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4939353.Oliviu_Craznic\/blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0by Oliviu Cr\u00e2znic Le-Fin-de-Si\u00e8cle of my youth: The boys were cool, the girls were hot; \u201cWe live in freedom\u201d was the rule \u2013 It was my time, and now it`s not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1494,77],"tags":[1495,1123,636],"class_list":["post-13482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-67","category-english","tag-egophobia-67","tag-english","tag-oliviu-craznic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-3vs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13483,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions\/13483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.vgy.me\/B8vX1g.jpg?w=812&ssl=1\")
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