Her gaze leads to the meeting spot. He replies with a gesture to stay calm and avoids the obstacles in a complicated dance. They exchange hidden glances, trying to read the other's lips for messages in their secret language. They get near the palm tree. The palm tree in the pot, near the door to the restaurant's garden. I forgot to wear a bra, she whispers quietly. Can you tell? Hm, he says, pleasantly surprised, don't worry, move freely, like a native. Come to the dancefloor, the bride and groom have started the dancing, I'll hold you close and no one will be able to tell.
(Translated by Diana Mîndruță-Tănăsescu / 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 November 2021, the group has 7.500 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 Ficțiuni Reale. 
