Category: English
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What I learned doing an MRI
[Scroll down or click here for Romanian.] A couple of days ago I had a series of tests done with various doctors, because lately parts of my hands kept going numb and now my back started to hurt, as well. It was most probably because I work on the computer all day and I don’t […]
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Chronicles of a roof
[Scroll down or click here for Romanian.] A few days before Christmas, the house just a few meters away from our building, whose roof pops up right in front of our windows, caught on fire. My husband was home alone and, just like all the neighbors, he called the fire brigade. When they arrived at […]
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The Apple
[Scroll down or click here for Romanian.] Cydius always said that survival was a question of instinct. His was particularly keen. You’d often find him humming, immersed in a mystical frenzy: “I can feel The Apple, I hear it calling to me! Oh, ’tis close, my brethren, soon He will grace us with His all-enveloping […]
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Question / Întrebare
What if I could stretch my mind across these idle parasites who lie atop my thoughts, nibbling and suckling, and peel off this foreign future to find my past inside, still unripe, like an elderly worm, that I could bring to life and hang out in the sunlight and be me? Ce-ar fi dac-aș putea […]
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Fugitive from justice
[Scroll down or click here for Romanian.] My sister has always liked to hide time in cupboards, so she doesn’t have to hear it pass… or maybe to escape from it completely. It’s a trick she learned from our grandfather (who, in turn, seems to have picked it up in the army; surely, that’s where […]
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Battle / Luptă
Mornings smear my forehead with thoughts. Like a thin book in a bookshelf, I am crammed between questions and fears. My eyelids pierce through enemy lines and I call out: sleep, come and save me! while this wild and wicked light, its belly full of foes, sinks its hooves into my cheeks… Dimineața îmi murdărește […]
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