I needed to go
backstage, to request an autograph. I was in love with his whole being, so I asked him to give me an autograph on my forearm, and I was going to tattoo what he was going to write. He was squeezing my arm and gently scratched indecipherable letters with a pen. I told him I wanted to tattoo that scribble and he asked me to come with him to the hotel. I got in his
acid-smelling limousine. She didn't look at me, not for a second, but in the 8 minutes it took us to get to the hotel, she left me pregnant.
(Translated by Anca Cristina Ilie / 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. 
