George T. Sipos
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George T. Sipos is a Romanian American writer, scholar of Japanese literature and culture and literary translator from Japanese into Romanian and English and has published four volumes of translated prose and novels.
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Sweetness from the Garden
He listened mouth agape for the millionth time tataia Stefan’s story about the old woman’s hidden treasure. No doubt it was buried somewhere within the crumbling walls of the old barn, tataia reassured him. Petru had just told him about his dream from the night before. The old woman had appeared to him and guided him to a place in the garden. But the boy was confused, because that wasn’t even close to the barn. He remembered vividly how he had tried to resist the apparition and kept pointing her back toward the barn. In his dream, they were communicating without talking to each other, so Peter could still feel a tinge in his right arm from ardently and vigorously having pointed towards the front of the small plot of land. “No, it’s there, under the barn!” he wanted to scream in the dream, but no words were coming out of his mouth. The stories he had heard so many times could not have been wrong…
By George T. Sipos5 years ago in Fiction
Nothing New to Report
Nothing New to Report “Nothing new to report. Outside observable area status: unchanged. Inside pod status: unchanged.” Petra turned off the observation cameras surveilling the ten-mile perimeter around the RUSH. She couldn’t shake the uncanny feeling that enveloped her whenever she was on duty and had to hear her own voice on the security recordings. She ignored it and recorded the status message in the three other languages that she had been assigned. First in French, then in Japanese and Romanian. Everyone on the pod was assigned languages and cultures to assimilate and preserve. Petra’s pod was a small one with only twelve residents in six couples, so she had been assigned one additional language. But she was happy about the Japanese. She had become quite fond of it over the years and watching old recordings of performance arts shows had become one of her favorite things to do on the pod. The haunting masks and chanting in the nō plays were one of the most spiritual experiences she has ever had.
By George T. Sipos5 years ago in Fiction
