Gabriel Rusu
Good day, can you help me, please? I need a human scale, the cheapest possible. Good day, I only have bathroom scales. Electronic demons whose sole purpose on our planet is to ruin the day of those who step on them. Not to mention that they also withstand the frustrations emitted by our nervous system. I'll throw in a set of batteries because the manufacturer didn't include them in the package, for the good of humanity, of course. What do you say, do you have the courage to awaken the beast? I'm afraid of it, I'm weak, madam.
Vero Anttheia Teodoru
Rodi sued all the publications for slander. How do women make stuffed cabbage rolls based on their zodiac sign? Libras are clumsy and impulsive, so they'll start making them but end up with cabbage à la Cluj instead. How do women make haggis? Libras love traveling and are traditional, so they'll celebrate Easter in Dubai. In the Top 3 best wives, not to mention - Virgo, Pisces, and Sagittarius. The biggest gossip of the zodiac, also her. Extremely irritated by so much injustice, she filed a complaint to get revenge.
Arthur Ianoși
Her. You can't do anything alone. You'd die without me. Him. My life is like therapy. I always have to pay someone to be there for me. Otherwise, I'm healthy. You're unbalanced. Go to the devil so he can comb your hair[1]. Him. I don't need it, I'm bald. What are you insinuating? Her. Drop these pomposities. You're a son of a bitc. Him. Today I made my first online order. By myself. Her. You wrote me on mess to get beer. Him. Yes, but I did it myself. Her. Costeluș, I'm leaving you. Him. When you leave, take out the trash too.
(Translated by Alin-Marian Mărgescu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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