After he won the lottery a big sum, everything went smoothly. A widower, his children settled down, thriving businesses, a man in his late seventies married a new, young woman, under 25 years old, fertile, with money down, and made her mistress of the villa surrounded by four acres of park. After the wedding, less than a year later, he became the father of twins. A fervent traditionalist, he baptized the children under the intrigued gaze of a suspicious priest. It wasn't until he saw the young gardener that the prelate realized they are not children out of wedlock.
Alina Ilie
I know a child who planned to achieve a dream two years ago. He worked for this, he gave up social media, he worked all day trying to overcome his lack of self-confidence and especially, his fear of mathematics, he cried at midnight and prayed from all his heart to succeed and get into a certain high school. He never gave up on this dream and today, it came true. Do I commit an indiscretion if I tell you I am the mother of this child?
Laura Stanciu
She was standing alone in a hospital room. She had come out on the corridor for a few times to exchange a word. How much to put in the envelope? How much should she give to the surgeon? These were the questions that troubled her. But nobody came out of the wards, so she knocked discreetly at the door of the room next door, entered and a woman in a plaster cast rolled her eyes in her direction. Oh, you must be in awful pain. What happened to you? But the young woman couldn't talk about the accident and about her three-year-old daughter who died in the back seat.
(Translated by Irina Vild / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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