The undersigned Demostene Pestrițu, courier at the restaurant The Famous Dinner, I submit a complaint against the reporter Leonard Guguștiuc who broadcasted a report entitled "The Rapist in the Park" on the 5 o'clock news. In reality it was not a rape as the young woman had her skirt caught in the chain of her bicycle and I jumped in to help her undress. Please give this Right of Response at a prime-time hearing. I am writing the statement of the lady cyclist Cerasela Buzdugan.
Alex Caragian
One very late evening, while my eyelids were sinking between the couch cushions, I made an unexpected discovery that I am still unable to explain to this day. I found a hidden button on the TV remote control that gave me access to a programme showing news that was not due for another two days. Every time I tried to preview what I was seeing on TV; I would fall asleep restlessly until the world news broadcast. What's even more puzzling is that I don't even own a TV.
Bogdan Sebastian Burjan
When I fell on the ground it hit me so hard that I felt no pain, no fear, no hatred and no revenge. When with one look I broke her heart into so many fine little shards that there was nothing left. No soul, no life, no darkness. When this little world I clenched into my fist. I could crush it in a second. Or set it free. From there, at the top. Being in my suit, in the rain, I was looking up at the thick fog. And I took another puff. From the empty whiskey bottle. My hour of news. Evening. Then I fell asleep.
(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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