We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.
Isnino Sirat Jilal
Once a time there was a man in my neighbourhood who had no child who used to entertain the children and all people knew the character of the man. Some people said a long time he had children but his children had passed away. So whenever all the children are visiting I used to hide myself in order not to see that man. One day my mother said to me, have you ever seen that man? I said no. She told me why don’t you see him – he is a good man and he used to give children whatsoever they lack. I said to her I will go today If Allah says. That evening I tried to go and when I reached the house of the man it was burning and all the children were running away from the house while before they used to run to that house. I told them why are you running and they didn’t talk to me and I passed them in order to see that man today. When I reached there actually I missed all the things that I had and it was my first day to visit that man. A proverb said the more you leave the more you encounter, so whenever I remember that day I regret it so much because it was the first I saw that man in happy but it can refer to what I want.
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