Even now, I don't think she was lying. When her Nae left to study Astrophysics, she was quiet for a while, then it was as if she'd become someone else. I listened, fascinated, to her stories about the multiverse and gateways between parallel universes. I was smitten with her. She would lie back on the grass, the buttons of her now-tight dress coming undone so it wouldn't burst, leaning back with her legs open toward me, then sending me to get cigarettes and liqueur. Afterward, she'd take me into the cornfield. She'd blindfold me, kiss me, and disappear. The portal, she'd say the next day. I fell through it.
Alex Micu
In the first part, he breaks his nose, just by mistake. She came up from behind and put her hands over his eyes. Guess what? Țuțu got scared, thinking someone was trying to take his bag with glue. He elbowed and broke Cici's nose. Cici wiped the blood off with her fingers. She cried and licked the blood. He, gallantly, handed her the bag, as a sedative. She refused, just for form's sake. Then she snorted loudly. In the second part, Cici does everything for Țuțu to break his nose. He, gallantly, will hand her the bag, as a sedative. I'll win the Palme d'Or.
Ionuț Morariu
And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better to be blind in the kingdom of the Lord than to have two sound eyes and be enslaved by the Stranger. For everything that is left for two, serves two masters. Like hands that carve faces, like ears that bend to vanity. Listen to me, your mother, who consecrated you as a Nazarite to the Lord. And turn your eyes away from temptation and idols. For again I tell you: It is better to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two and be thrown into the fire of Gehenna.
(Translated by Ioana Levîrdă / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale.