Real Fiction / Lucian Pătru, Ana-Maria Butuza, Horațiu Dudău, translated by Larisa Marta Mreană: Cats Come from Mars

Lucian PătruThey both sat on the edge of the airlock, their foreheads propping up the sky speckled with incandescent freckles. Look, that’s the North Star, he told her, most likely pointing at a passing airliner. How beautiful, she marveled. But those dark spots beside the brightest trail-what are they? Oh, those are the space …