He looked at the woman's delicate body, sensually coming out from under the sheet. He slid his palm over her back under her nightgown and trembled. He returned to the office, handling the electronic hammer through the cables and boards. An hour later he returned with one. He slid his palm along her back again, pressing it lightly. The woman blinked shyly. That's it - he whispered warmly. He smiled. The android type was an old one, around 2020, but he liked the wax innocence of vintage models. The new ones were so perfect they hurt.
(Translated by Alexandra Gruia / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)
Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In January 2021, the group has 3.000 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
*Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale. 
