Hey, how did you get here? You live on the other side of the world. The boy smiled. The same way you did. Now we both live in a dream. You're not in your room either, as you think you are. The girl pouted, put on her pink furry slippers, opened the door, and found herself tiptoeing on the edge of a subway platform. He pulled her back out of the way of the speeding train. They collapsed onto a subway seat. The door closed by itself and the train jerked into motion. Next stop: Great Expectations.
Andra Toropoc
I sway my hips and sing in front of the committee. That's enough, stop, shouted the brigade leader. People call him Lemetru because he's been here for a long time and he plays the harmonica well for the director. Where do you think you are, comrade? What is this emancipation? Where are your overalls? Why are you wearing a raincoat? We're looking for talent, not holding a cabaret. What's your name? I'm Evelin from the small compressors. I can see that, laughed one of the men in the audience, eyeing my cleavage. I walk up to him, pull his cap over his eyes and slap him. That's how it's done now, you old lecher.
Paul Dârvariu
these have appeared in the Romanian language. For example, the distant past. It is used in verbal constructions like: back in my day, I don't remember, or did I say that? The fairly recent past: whose was the female voice you spoke to on the phone yesterday? The recent past: you didn't lift the toilet seat again when you peed. The sad present: you're good for nothing. The threatening future: I'm going to get a divorce if you don't get your acttogether. The grim future: you're not worth a dime without me, you wretch.
(Translated by Marian-Cătălin Niculăescu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale.