It was 8:45 p.m. I turned off all the lights and went out on the balcony. I opened my fishing chair, put a beer in the holder, and wiped the lenses of my binoculars, then I put the tape on in sourdine.
Can I touch you there - Michael Bolton. They started promptly. They didn't grope for a long time, they went straight into action. Aggressive. There were many, more than I had ever seen. I made a noise and I thought they saw me. My heart started beating fast. I could feel pure adrenaline. I love cockfights.
(Translated by Irina Giurgiu / 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. 
