19.11.2021

She was about to be the last thing he saw. She was lying bare naked on a simple cover on that empty beach. He sat next to her without any hesitation and after a while started to touch her, feel her and explore her. There were no strings attached, but this physical need was the only alternative for death. It empowered him and made him live in the moment. He hoped that before he closed his eyes, he would only feel the raw sand on his lips from her thighs. This was some sort of a last breath.

(Translated by Luciana-Maria Buruiană / 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 August 2021, the group has 7.000 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, 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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