If You're Reading This, You Have Been Chosen

Carmen Mihu
It's impossible. His eyes widened in terror and a shiver ran through him from the soles of his feet to the middle of his palms. Out of all the archangels and seraphim?? Him? He's going to talk to the Father. It's clear. And he will persuade him. It can't be otherwise. He is the only Son. What heavenly father can subject his son to a life? Of a man? And what pieces of God to lose to fit into a body? And then, there are the sins to wash away. Where does so much love come from? And how long-suffering? Father, forgive me, but I don't know how to do it.
 
 Caterina Tudorache
If you are reading this, you have been chosen. Read it 10 times and pass it on to 10 people. If not, you will have bad luck for 10 years. Oh dear. 10. I don't have the phone number in my contacts. I clicked on the link, read it a few times, lost track. I didn't understand anything, but I don't want 10 years of bad luck either. Never mind, I'll read it more times, maybe I'll just have good luck. 10 people. I included the old ladies from the building, the card number, the PIN, the copy of the ID. With divine protection installed, I feel like a different person. I feel lighter.
 
 Laura Stanciu
I've put you on speaker, Viorica. Well, busy. With family. I don't know what my folks are messing with in there, I haven't even left the kitchen to pee. What are you cooking? Oh, come on. You're a phenomenon. Romanian sweet bread with walnuts in June? I haven't gotten to sweets. I had other orders today. Gică wants tripe soup, the big one, roasted peppers and peasant potatoes, and the little one, bless his heart, asked for Romanian garlic chicken stew. This garlic has suffocated me. I'll leave you. I'm taking a break to take out the trash. Just then, she receives an SMS. Mommy, is dinner ready? Are we coming?

 
(Translated by Eduard Mihai Uretu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)