What star is that? I don't know. If you want, I'll give it your name. Who do you think you are? I'm a man in love and I'm a little God. That was the astronomer who knew the names of all the stars. The star that caught her eye was called CWS2024, but its name was prettier. This guy's weird too, she thought, what must my girlfriend have been thinking when she set me up with him. Listen, God. I'd prefer an earthling. He could've taken me to the club, had a Cosmopolitan, not to the beach to look at the stars.
Octavia Buhociu
Yes, it's good here, nothing to say, I'm with my mom and dad, they have work, pretty much all the time and quite often even on Sundays, I have a black kitten with green eyes, I go to school, I get along well with the teacher and the rest of the class, I have good grades, I have friends in the neighborhood. But here, even if at night I go up to the 10th floor of the apartment block, my father took me to the astronomical observatory, I can't find the little star in the sky, which is clearly visible from my grandmother's house in the village. And I want to give it a name: Agurița, like my grandmother.
Ina Moldoveanu
Did you see grandma? See what, sweetie? There was a big, bright star in the sky tonight. There it is down there on the lower left. Oh, even these glasses don't help me anymore. You gotta see it. It's born now. I knew she'd show up. I was waiting for her. How did you know? Mommy didn't buy me the telescope for my birthday for nothing. Well, Grandma, it's been 40 days since Mom left. You told me that these days she's like an angel on earth, then she goes to sleep in heaven. That's her. My shining star. With gentle name. Hermina.
(Translated by Victor Albei / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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