Real Fiction / Alex Micu, Roxana Catana Tarhon, Cristina Daniela Dumitru-Pascal, translated by Bogdan Macarie: Bronze

Alex MicuThere stood a beggar in the shadow of the statue. In exchange for a coin, you would get a story about distant lands where everything was green, where birds sang, and where joyful children bathed in the cold waters of the river. Fiddlesticks, said the sunburned passersby; blasphemy, said the priests. Water does not flow …