Do you know those women who walk into a room and turn your world upside down? They are beautiful, upright, determined, fulfilled. They do not actually walk into a room, they own it. They don't ask, they order with just a look. They don't walk, they step gracefully, but they make the biggest noise. Men want them, other women hate them. I have worked for two years to get there. Day after day after day. I forgot there was chocolate on earth. I trained in the cold and in the heat. I changed three the rapists. I stepped gracefully too. Everyone felt me, except him.
(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 May 2021, the group has 6.400 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. 
