The four stories you are about to read are experimental, postmodern, and written by a concerned author. Concerned and rather worried, but hopeful. In Love, Deedee, you will meet a hurt stray dog, while The Last Fish on Earth might make you reconsider your own eschatology. The Sunbeam, Niki and George. Vena Cava is like an animation short and Hacking 'Time', the story that gives this book its title, will engulf you in a world that could soon be our own. These stories started as games and they are meant, first and foremost, as incentives to both readers and writers to imagine, think and play.
Anda CADARIU is a writer, a translator, and a lecturer at the University of Arts in Târgu-Mureș, Romania. She holds a BA in Romanian and English Language and Literature (UBB Cluj-Napoca), an MA in Cultural Anthropology (University of Bucharest) and a Ph.D. in Theatre Studies (University of Arts in Târgu-Mureș). She won several research and visiting scholarships at prestigious international universities (Jagiellonian University in Cracow, University of Warsaw, University of Castilla-La Mancha.) She worked as a cultural adviser (the Polish Institute in Bucharest) and as an editorialist (Concept Foundation). Her debut, Poveste despre Banjaluka/A Story of Banjaluka, was published in Echinox, a well-known Romanian journal. She continued to publish essays, fiction, reviews and interviews in Echinox, Vatra, Bucureştiul Cultural (the supplement of 22 magazine), Observator Cultural, Respiro, Cultura etc. In 2005, LiterNet Publishing issued her e-book, lovem@il project, with a foreword by prominent literary critic Sanda Cordoș. In 2019, the same publishing house issued its sequel, messenger (foreword by Anca Hațiegan), and the bilingual volume Lisa on the Beach/Lisa pe plajă (foreword by Maria Manolescu Borșa, Romanian translation by Alina Nelega.) LiterNet.ro hosted her weekly short fiction column, inter_zise, in 2005 and 2010. One of her short stories, White Coke, was translated into Czech and published on the website of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Prague. In 2019, she was selected as a participant in the Summer Scriptwriting Base residency, which took place in Bulgaria (Sofia and Bozhentsi). Anda Cadariu coordinated the translation into Romanian and publication of several plays, among which the 2018 Pulitzer-winner Cost of Living, by Martyna Majok. Her photos can be viewed on her Wordpress blog, //obiectiv subiectiv//. She self-published her first novel, Sara's Three Loves, on the 8th of March, 2020.