Writer Between Worlds

Soulful writing about humans and places

Category: Creative writing and fiction

  • Love Haikus

    Love Haikus

    speaking about love: do not delay cupping your hands to receive its miraculous snow, soft and calm; also do not delay showering it on someone else. what better things have you got to do in this world? the only thing worse than being unloved is having nobody to love. life is a glint of light…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.” – Emil Cioran

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  • Wild geese (haiku)

    Wild geese (haiku)

    the sky stitched up by southward wings, its low-hanging belly exhaling.

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  • Presence (another haiku)

    Presence (another haiku)

    two people can be quiet together only in person. presence is required for that exchange of silences called friendship, called love.

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  • Haiku

    Haiku

    made entirely of earth and glitter, I am shattered by the smile around your sadness – leaves and roots and branches with the strangest songbirds rustle and coo in the deadest of nights, each dawn a gaping longing.

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  • Timișoara scrie #7

    Timișoara scrie #7

    Așa a arătat seara de 24.10.24 cu Diana Radovan, Cristi Vicol, Cosmin Leucuța și minunata echipă a Cărturești Timișoara! Am râs, am lăcrimat, am dezbătut lucruri mai mult sau mai puțin comode, am citit din recentul meu roman Icoană-n urmărire generală, am dat autografe și, în general, ne-am simțit bine. Distracția s-a continuat apoi în…

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  • My debut novel in Romanian is out!

    Dragii mei, eu am ajuns la Timișoara, iar romanul meu pleacă astăzi în lume!!! Ce veți găsi între paginile lui: un furt misterios, iubiri nevindecate și traumele emigrării, suspans și multe emoții. Sunt sigură că o să vă placă!Îl puteți comanda de la https://www.edituradatagroup.ro/produs/icoana-n-urmarire-generala/ sau de la Librăriile Cărturești!Mii de mulțumiri lui Andru-David Simionoiu și…

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  • Join Me at Timișoara Scrie: My Upcoming Book Reading

    Dear friends, On 24.10.24, I’m invited to speak about books, literature, and writing at “Timișoara scrie”, an event hosted by Cărturești in my hometown. I’ll be reading from my latest novel, Icoană-n urmărire generală (mystery/romance), due to be released shortly by Datagroup Publishing. Alongside me, my neighbor and friend Diana Radovan, author of a poignant…

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  • Quote of the day

    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions –…

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  • Quote of the day

    “If, whilst I am, I am as I should be, what do I care more? And thus let me lose self every hour, and be twenty successive selfs, or new selfs, ‘tis all one to me: so [long as] I lose not my opinion [i.e. my overall outlook, my character, my moral identity]. If I…

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  • Quote of the day

    “Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer. The questions that we couldn’t ask in life because the costs would be too much. Fiction and narrative art give us a vicarious opportunity to see these questions play out, at no true cost to our own.” –…

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  • Quote of the day

    “There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is…

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