Gabriel Rusu
Comrades from all corners of the world, I invite you to put your little paws on the adhesion of the Cats Everywhere Party. When we take the power, and we will, my dear ones, you'll have a human in every location, responsible for opening the cans. Yes, comrades, you will be served only tender meat in sauce. You can say goodbye to dry cat food for the rest of your lives. You'll be worshipped by all the other creatures, and the dogs, our number one enemy, will be sent to re-education camps. They will either rot there or meow.
Gabi Lupu
We met in traffic on a very busy Monday. He was on his way to Magheru boulevard, I was rushing to the market. We liked each other from the rear-view mirrors and fell in love by the rear windows. He watched me as I was speeding at the red light to get in the line for eggs. I watched how he screamed in the car, happy to see me when I would prove how talented I was in traffic. When the screams and the signs would not reach me, he would frantically signal me with all the headlights on his car. We hated each other at the police station when we signed the accident report.
Iulia Stavre
The sun encompassed with its morning rays the laziness on the chaise. The sea breeze made her shudder on her bronzed skin. The silence was being interrupted by the rippling of the water. The beach still empty, in an hour it would be full of tourists. She lazily stood up; she wanted to take a bath in the sea. Tall, slender, bronzed. A seagull came down next to her to peck some pretzel. The last cigar and some leftover coffee. The high-pitched sound of the messenger froze up her ear drum. Good mornin', kitten. Kiss my ass, you stayed home \'cause your wife got tonsillitis.
(Translated by Ana Maria Mitruș / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
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