China Town

Lucian Pătru
The commencement ceremony for the year of the kangaroo had concluded. The dragons sat quietly in the stables and he had started work. His mole cricket stand wasn't crowded. Only one girl who had flashed him her small, but sweet eyes. Hunger hit him. He pulled out a newspaper and started reading. The terracotta army had been placed in the hearth. It was about time, he thought to himself, and slammed the rice on the yellowed paper. He chewed contentedly when his gaze fell on a grain stuck on the tip of the chopstick. Yuan's Apocalypse, from start to finish, upon him. He got scared, gathered his stand and left.
 
 Nicolae Popescu
I am eleventh in line. You are also waiting for the packages? I ask the lady fashionably dressed. She stares at me through violet glasses: Yes, they have increased the VA... Shush, I stopped her, they are going to hear us, they will ban it, it's too cheap. I have bought a fridge with an incorporated stove for 99 euros. The goddamn Chinese. The conversation runs smoothly, Musk, taxes, globalization. I help the lady carry home the package. She got a good carrot shredder, I test it that very night. I don't claim my package. Actually, I haven't got any, I have just come for my grandma's pension.
 
 Titela Durnea
I'd promised her publicly, I needed to make good on it. She was thrilled. A decent flight, economy, checked-in luggage (we were staying for about six days). It was clear when we landed, we were almost roasted on the Liberty goddess' torch. Carryall retrieved, accommodation address given to the driver. From here on, we switched to the hysteria button. Of the six days, two were spent coming and going to the airport, two for the lady's hospitalization, with a gallbladder attack from the smells in the neighbourhood, and two for buying little elephant souvenirs. The SUMMIT was left for next time.

 
(Translated by Andreea Grințescu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)