I hired her for cleaning up, but I wasn't expecting such a nice girl, with such vitality. She started to work immediately, walking her feather broom in every corner of my heart, whisking the web that had formed over the years, washing all the dirt that had been accumulating inside my soul with her joy. Her seductive eyes and most importantly, the blonde jokes, she herself being an authentic blonde, freshened every corner of my mind. My house smelled of refreshing mint. The next day she was gone with all of my expensive wristwatches.
Vero Anttheia Teodoru
When James showed up to the trailer's door, Eileen greeted him with a gun. One more step and consider yourself a dead man, she told him angrily, spitting like a man. Show me. She fired the gun. The bullet flew extremely close. You're nuts. The little girl hidden behind the curtain witnessed the entire scene raddled. It was the first and the last time when Jessie saw her father. She asked about him once, but her mother got so angry that she feared to bring up the subject ever again. Later on, she grew up feeling on her own skin what a one night stand was.
Octavia Buhociu
Now what am I going to do, where should I find you? It lasted for a few hours. You knew me from the neighbourhood, and I knew you from an outdoor vernissage concert, where you were holding the pianist's score. I found out you wanted a magazine, I was the one who had it, so I bravely called you. It was your brother. But you gladly came to the date I proposed. With a red rose: I've been in love with you for 5 years, but tomorrow I'm going to work in Greece with my father. We walked on the autumn streets. I didn't get the chance to tell you I Love you back. Because the car came to pick you up.
(Translated by Cristina-Andreea Dobre / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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