Andreea Sepi

Andreea Sepi is a translator and writer based in southern Bavaria. Her intercultural background includes Southeastern Europe, the United States, the UK, and Germany. She has a BA English from the University of London and a certificate of Advanced Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. Andreea revels in the dark corners of human psychology and likes to investigate the combined traumas of motherhood, alienation, and exile. She also runs a creative writing blog called Ink4Thought.com.

Soil

When I sold the first piece of land, I didn’t even tell my old man. I forged his signature on the papers.

My older sister Maria had left the village ages ago, she had a husband and a two-bedroom apartment in town, with hot running water, she wanted for nothing, so I was sure my mother would cover for me. In fact, I was sure I’d have her blessing by default, after all, that lot had been part of her dowry and she was nowhere as obsessed with land as my old man.