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Traian Badulescu

Short Stories
- Loneliness (a neverending fairytale)
- My City, My Master

My City, My Master
         by Traian Badulescu
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How much time from now on had she to suffer like that? - "Pariah" and also on term… That’s bad honey, isn’t it? Be careful, don’t make our City pavement red…

A bantering voice who belonged to a man... As if she didn’t have enough problems. So alone and now someone will abuse her.

- Go to hell!… answered her and went on her way, trying to skip over his presence. But she wasn’t a good actress. The guy was sure that she almost pissed on her.

- Well you must know the hell is a very intimate place for me. I bet that without me, you won’t live to see what will happen tomorrow. Even your bones will be eaten by our All glorious City’s pavement.

The guy insisted on her. She started to run, but after some seconds of heming and hawing, she stopped.

- You’re a smart chick. With me you will have more chances to survive here. I guarantee you at least one month. I will give you a written act if you want.

She never liked mad people. But now he needed someone to be with her. She hated the loneliness. And he was the one talking to her. This unknown man frightened her less than a possible death. Any woman would choose a man to the unknown. Even he could be a very callous pig.

She turned her head. He was really cute. Tall, dark-haired, with a face which inspired her a lot of strength and confidence. His look was not the one of a beast. Maybe in other combination of circumstances, he could be an ideal man for her. But not now, when both of them were "pariah".

- What is your proposal now? Let’s suppose I trust you… asked Angel, hoping she would hear from him a healing solution. Her greatest wish was to convince at least her Building to admit her inside. She was born dependent on the Master Buildings, in fact as all the people from the Master City.

- Me? I don’t have any proposal, babe. Let’s try together to discover a better place.

- A better place?? Where? Outside of the City?

She heard for a long time such kind of slogans, launched by some proselytes of the Devil, which militated in favor of the "Escape". But those crazy and unwanted people disappeared overnight, eaten by the Buildings.

Angel realized that her new friend wouldn’t think at a dangerous choice like that, even it was a joke. Beyond the City’s walls they were just never-ending deserts or frightening accidents of the grounds, some rocks which had thousands and thousand meters high. They seemed with the Master Buildings – very high and dominant. Some people said those rock peaks were the Gods of the Evil, but who really knew the truth? No one went out from the City mastered by the betony Buildings by thousands and thousands years… With all the bad things, the City was the only place people could live.

- Outside of the City? Said again Angel. We are the City offsprings… You know that…

- Am I looking like a madman, isn’t it? As I know, beyond the Walls is the same air, or maybe a better one…

The woman was trilled.

- Do you know you’re really mad? Yes you are! Well…

- David it’s my name.

That’s true, they forgot to introduce one to each other. She also whispered her name, being not sure that David heard something.

- Let’s go Angel (hmm… the dude had a very good hearing).

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