Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Creative writing and fiction

Și de sus ninge cu pene

Fă-mă arbore, îi șoptesc nucului, cu trupul cald lipit de trunchiul lui rece și aspru, să întind brațe interminabile către cer, din care să îmi crească alte brațe și tot așa, să adun cu ele lumina – mai multă! mai multă! – să mă hrănesc cu ea, să văd de sus lumea cum treceprin timp…
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On Leaving My Walled Garden

I hugged each tree trunk one by one, caressed each stalk, each stem, each textured leaf, each evanescent petal that now is a fresh-scented pink and by dawn, sallow, already reeks of wilted tissue and, with eyes closed,I breathed. I breathed and I touched. I mapped bark creases and crevasses, patterns of smoothness and ridges,…
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Saying Goodbye to a Tree

I hugged the tree in my garden yesterday as it spread its arms out into that empty space that summer weaves out of vapor and linden fragrance. I hugged my tree yesterday held it tight bark against cheek and whispered my goodbyes. It felt rooted and rough I entered its shy shade like one enters a…
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Romanul meu în Revista de cultură Familia

Dragi prieteni, Revista de #cultură Familia mi-a oferit șansa (și onoarea!) de a discuta despre ‘the making of my #novel’, Și văile șopteau numele tău. Puteți citi articolul mai jos: Cartea se poate comanda (deocamdată livrare doar pe teritoriul României) de aici: https://www.edituradatagroup.ro/produs/si-vaile-sopteau-numele-tau/ #roman #fictiune #dragoste #filosofic #psihologic #literatura #romance #romania #canada #timisoara #carpathians #munti
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Humanity (haiku)

amid cherry tree blossoms, humans fight for their right to kill humans.
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Îmbrățișați (haiku)

noaptea, suflul tău îmi naște pe spate flori albe de lotus.
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O nouă provocare editorială!

Dragi prieteni, pentru primăvara-vara 2025 v-am pregătit o frumoasă poveste despre #dragoste și #tabuuri, #familie și #resentiment, #religie și #cruzime, #tehnologie și trăirea nemijlocită. O #iubire pe cât de imposibilă, pe atât de indispensabilă, desfășurată pe fundalul fabulos al Munților #Carpați și pe cel (ficționalizat) al Timișoarei mele natale. Îi dăm drumul în lume începând…
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On love (2)

“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they…
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On love

“Florentino Ariza, for his part, suddenly asked himself what he would never have dared to ask himself before: what kind of secret life had she led outside of her marriage? Nothing would have surprised him, because he knew that women are just like men in their secret adventures: the same stratagems, the same sudden inspirations,…
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On true life

“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we’re alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.” Don DeLillo – Point Omega (2010).
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On the solitude of writing

“The person who writes books must always be enveloped by a separation from others. That is one kind ofsolitude. It is the solitude of the author, of writing. To begin with, one must ask oneself what the silence surrounding one is—with practically every step one takes in a house, at every moment of the day,…
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Quote of the day

“I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast. I believe that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike. That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, mock, sing, dramatize, and deny. (…) I believe that…
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