Oana Brumă
During her high school years, all she wanted to do was to escape the small town near the border where everybody knew her. As far as possible from her parents and into the metropolis of all possibilities. She got accepted into college with the best grades and shared a dorm with many cockroaches. She was eating at the cafeteria and was washing her clothes over at some strangers, engineering students. She studied tirelessly, got the job she wanted, bought a house, married, and had children. Now she runs erratically through the city and sometimes when she lies down, she wishes to exchange the city dream with some countryside peace. But turmoil is addictive.
Răzvan Drăgoi
The terrorist association Little Pranksters, supported by parents and the kindergarten teacher, is behind some terrible attacks with semolina, chocolate milk and marmalade that caused panic throughout the city. Women particularly are angry with the assault that these fabric enemies launched on clothes, stained literally with anything. Dacii și Oltcitzii Liberi[1] metropolitan organization brought some natural questions. Are the Americans behind this? Or maybe the vaccine or 5G internet? They came to the conclusion that it is true.
Nicolae Popescu
Dear fellow villagers, dear relatives and friends who are hiăr, first of all, today we celebrate two important things: starting today, our village is offcially a comună[1], and mai bradăr has succeeded. I quote directly from WhatsApp: I've ărraivd at the station in Miunchen. Miunhen, Mr. Mayor, his cousin Ionică, his right-hand man, corrected him. Mayor Ilie wiped his sweaty forehead. Now that we fraternize with this Miunchen, I say we should have conditions like on Germany. Florica, my wife, let's start that auction with three thousand euros for every street lighting neon.
(Translated by Miruna Dumitru / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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