Real Fiction / Monica Bologa, Marius Stan, George Dometi, translated by Bogdan Nicola: Overpopulation

Monica BologaEvery night, my mother sings me the same nursery rhyme: An elephant was swinging on a spider’s web / And since it didn’t break, another elephant joined. I never get to find out how many elephants that goddamned web can bear. Yesterday I set out to stay awake until the end. When my mother got the count up to …