After a sudden heart attack, he left her with two small children and immense debt. Then he started searching for her during the nights he was hungry or thirsty. She would hear him strumming through her pots, how he's making coffee. He would leave traces. One night when the moon was full, she went to his tomb, spread out her body over it and fell asleep with her mouth full of
coffee-tasting soil. She woke up in the morning, calmer, healed, thanking to the Gods that she's alive and can be both mother and father for her children.
(Translated by Liliana Popescu / 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. 
