Psychologist, I admire your balance and serenity. You've always been so calm? Yes, I'm a calm guy as long as I can remember. I'm quick-tempered, full of energy, and have a dirty mouth. I'll give you a piece of advice, he said as I left: Whenever you feel the urge to revolt, to shout, to insult, or, God forbid, to harm yourself, clench your fists tightly until you feel your nails pierce your skin. Maybe it'll help you. When he opened the door for me to leave, I noticed some crescent-shaped indentations in his palm.
George Dometi
The Great Architect cultivated His own selfishness in medium-sized fruit seedlings, with chronic, globular shapes, smooth skin, and a pale cream pulp, crunchy, juicy, and only mildly acidic. Lucică, seeing Him happy, decided to play a trick on him and swapped the seeds, so he ended up with round, juicy fruits with a tough skin and an unpartitioned center full of seeds, which the unruly, clayey two of them jumped on viciously. This incident burst His holy vein.
Elena Fermuș
She looked at the mother, who was cuddling her child. Mom, kiss the child when he sleeps, or else he won't listen to you anymore. What are you babbling, leave him to see he's loved. And he did. He grew up to be selfish, thinking he deserved everything, and his mother, for his whims, she spent the money she didn't have, and the debts made her heart grow colder. But she never said no. Not even when he asked for the most luxurious place for his coming of age party. That's how it was, and the first interest she paid it with her life. When the moneylenders lose their patience, they don't joke around.
(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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