10.05.2021

Our dear, listen to us, because we want what's best for you. You two will never be that close to one another. He's up there with his head in the clouds and you're here down-to-earth. I know you like him, but you will never be the perfect match. And not because he's stiff and posh and you so genuine and delicate, neither because he enjoys autumns while summer entices you, not even because he's black and you're white, but because, my darling, you're a sandal and he's a shoe.

(Translated by Iulia-Teodora Urea / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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 April 2021, the group has 5.600 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, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)

Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale.

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