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On the outside, looking in

This, this, I tell myself, this see-through envelope of blueness that contains us, this fluid in which we move, this shallow film of sunlight collecting into magnanimous pools, rippling, cascading, eroding, building its deep dark wells of forgetfulness, turning our chunky limbs of flesh into ethereal shadows that precede us slanting, hovering, levitating, always one…
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In search of lost time…

… my most recent contribution to the FB flash fiction group “Ficțiuni Reale” (Romanian only) can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/366117403460275/posts/9154969441241650/?comment_id=9154978477907413&notif_id=1682955213803360&notif_t=group_comment&ref=notif
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Easter itineraries – or in search of inspiration

Nowhere else is the sweet stillness of spring and the cheerful chirruping of songbirds as soothing as in the Romanian countryside in those last quiet hours before Easter, at the foot of a mountain dotted with caves and age-old monasteries. We spent three days around the northern parts of Gorj and Valcea counties in southern…
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Fish – Short Story

Dear friends, Given that my short story Fish, which won second place in the Writer Advice Flash Fiction Competition 2022, has now been removed from their website and can no longer be accessed there, I have decided to offer it here. Non-subscribers can access it for a token fee. (I do occasionally need chocolate to…
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Quote of the day

“Men will always be what women choose to make them. If you wish then that they should be noble and virtuous, let women be taught what greatness of soul and virtue are. “ J.J. Rousseau – Discourse on the Arts and Sciences (1750)
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Watch for timelessness instead

Originally posted on andreeasepi.com: a watch is a little glass prison for time – ? where the seconds serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole. ? people like to wear captive time around their wrist. when all the seconds are numbered and can never escape, they call the watch good. ? measuring…
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Getting featured

Dear friends, I’ve had some great #news today (literally): Our travel guide, #TIMISOARA23 – 23 Secrets You’ll Love About the City and the Romanian Banat was featured in not one, but two German-language newspapers! The Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung in Romania: and the Banater Post in München: Our “somewhat different travel guide” is, of course, available…
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Sleepwalkers

The street awash with children leaving school. The bus stop one big isle of kids. An overspill of youth. Huddled. Immobile. Captivated. Captive. Each child, oblivious to child, stares down into a phone like it’s a well of meaning. A girl ponders over the best emoji. Her finger hovers, undecided. Tap. The street awash with…
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Quote of the day

“What remained was the individual person, the human being – and nothing else. Everything had fallen away from him during those years: money, power, fame; nothing was certain for him anymore: not life, not health, not happiness; all had been called into question for him: vanity, ambition, relationships. Everything was reduced to bare existence. Burnt…
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Women, mothers and really old ladies

Now that March 8 is behind us (a day also known as Woman’s Day or Mother’s Day in Romania and, yes, flowers are expected!), it is time to introduce you to another Romanian tradition. This time, we’re talking about a really old one, dating all the way back to the Romans: the Days of the…
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