Pricop comes home starving. He sits at the table with his plate in front of him. Vera waves a spoon and talks: There's been a lot of excitement today. The neighbours across the street got a dog. Little bugger barked at me when he saw me coming. The ones sharing the wall with us were all chattering, I heard him go to his mother's. Upstairs at Gilda's the elevator stopped twice. I cracked the door and looked: they were the plumber and the cable guy. Pricop jumps out of his chair: Vero, the soup is on fire again. And I'm not even convinced that Gilda's a bitch. She was with me today.
Amalia Melnic
Something happened, just like anything else. I have been waiting for you from dusk till dawn. I was slightly worried. When the phone rang and I answered it, my legs were shaking, I felt all the weight of the world on my shoulders. They told me you were dead and nothing else. The questions plummeted in air heavily. I turned on the TV with the intention of distracting myself for just a moment. The shock deepened. All the TVs were buzzing with your accident. That's also when I found out that you'd had another woman for a long time and were on your way to the sea.
Gabriel Rusu
International news. The Russian people, always a friend, will receive a small gift from our great nation. To commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the Great Victory, our leader, Kim Jong-un, will return to his compatriot Vladimir Putin the Workers' Republic of Alaska as a token of empathy. The ceremony is planned as soon as the first son of the homeland returns from his official visit to the rice fields of Mars, where his Martian comrades have been urging him to attend the Celebration of the Exceeding of the Norm.
(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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