I could feel the coolness of the wall. It was hastily plastered. My pulse was racing. You're a shadow, Răzvan. No noise. Like a ninja. I was walking backwards, so I wouldn't be spotted immediately. In case I was intercepted, I was walking in the right direction, towards where I was supposed to be. But inside was the explosives and poison manufacturing base. I didn't want to be an accomplice. They were taking advantage of our naivety. I won't be caught and used to it. This was my plan: to skip the chemistry class.
Varinia Mitrea
Happy birthday, Mihai, you're 11 years old, big boy now blah blah, I already stopped listening to my uncle, Tiberiu, I call him Toby, because he looks like the guy from The Office. No, I'm not too young to watch that movie, my mom watches it and she gives me the permission to watch it too. Where was I? I feel my life drain out of me when I hear him chattering away, like a dusty old clock, incessant and monotonous. You know, Mihai, I've always wanted superpowers, says the sleepy frog, what superpowers do you want? I want you to disappear. Sorry, I want to disappear.
Gabriel Rusu
God gave my grandfather six grandchildren, all boys. We were loved equally and called blessings. He always claimed that this is how He, tries to correct some wrongs done to man's disadvantage. After he had gone through a mining accident that left him almost paralyzed, the one above decided to steal his only son. One day, a speeding man took him on his bonnet and Neluțu never got up from the ground. Nevertheless, the grandfather got up on crutches and went on.
(Translated by Iulia-Mihaela Țugulea / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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