At first time I noticed he was a harsh guy, he clearly told me to step aside, but no, there is enough space for everybody, then I realised that he could easily knock me down, like an axe, he hit me terrible that I stumbled to the rock of Gibraltar, he got really angry when I came back full of blood, he kicked me with his left foot so heavy that I drowned into the ground, I returned covered soaking in the blood and in hot burning lava. Is that all the best you can do? There is no way that all you got, I told him with a grin, I could have choked him and crush him into crumbles but instead I ate him.
Cecilia Fofiu
And everything started in a jumble. The cardinal points have perished. And people speak to her in a twisted way, from the last to the first sound. And she looks, amazed, at the yellowish, dirty foliage floating up towards the branches, along with the drops of hot rain that vanish in the clouds. And she runs behind in the grey sky, with streets above the crown boiling. And she wants to turn everything back, to not hear the absurd, to revoke the verdict. And his head throb intensely in a brutal, insane exhaustion. And she hears only the crackling that splits her heart.
Dorin Vasile
She has everything, except the assignment. Miss, I'm obliged to give you a four. I apologize, but I haven't been feeling well. Bored, I suggest she finds a more interesting excuse. I'm updating my system, fixing some security issues that came up in the press, and setting myself to a minimal level of expectation. In the meantime, her story becomes too interesting, and I feel my level of excitement rising. I struggle to hold back. I've lost the My Containment program; I am searching for it in a hurry, a red light is flashing insistently, then darkness.
(Translated by Miruna Baicu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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