A convenience store hosted an unusual event today: a woman verbally assaulted several people on the store premises. Witnesses say she was telling personal stories, reciting lines, singing, dancing, asking people for applause and flowers. Investigations revealed that the woman is a freelance actress and the incident was meant to be a rehearsal for the upcoming premiere of a show in which she performs her own text. The attacker is receiving specialist medical care.
Adina Drag
I'm trapped in the pot on the balcony. Let's just say that's how I woke up. From the skinny one upstairs, ashes are falling on my head again. I curse her wholeheartedly and pull myself under the healing aloe vera plant, which heals nothing. She's still talking on the phone. Yeah, girl, hold on. I feel a new series of breaking news coming on. She dumped me, but I'm gonna get him. I don't even have time to feel sorry for myself when suddenly a huge flock of crows blackens the sky like in the Hitchcock movies. The skinny one really has powers.
Cecilia Fofiu
At idling speed, I'm looking for a parking space on the narrow lane at the edge of the lake when a kind villager beckons and invites me into his yard. I line up the car, grab my fishing gear and settle on the bank dreaming of a big catch. Towards evening, out of luck, I bitterly arrange my tackle, half submerged in the trunk. Suddenly I hear a scream and feel my saddles stiffen. Badly pinched and bruised, I am rescued with difficulty by the master of the household who pompously introduces me, as if on the news, to the inhospitable aggressor called Gogu.
(Translated by Andreea-Daniela Vasilache / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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