Real Fiction / Cecilia Fofiu, Daniel Popa, Bogdan Sebastian Burjan, translated by Mihaela Stănilescu: When Life Gives You Watermelons

Cecilia FofiuThe weary sun prepares for bed in the hollow behind the Magura hill, leaving behind a few lazy rays. It’s the end of another day of harvesting corn. Mica, tired, husks the last of the corn, hides the heap under the sack and walks slowly towards the hamlet. Eyes on a red bird hopping in her path, she trips on a dry …