How dare you kiss me, asshole? Hoo, easy lady, it's New Year's Eve. We all kiss each other. Welcome, madame, says a girl dressed in an unbelievably blue uniform. Your husband and daughter are waiting for you behind the gates. Glimpses of a car crash, broken glass, their bodies thrown on the highway. I take a step towards them but I can't see their faces. Then, nothing. Do you know how beautiful you look in the snow? I feel like I've always known you. Happy New Year.
(Translated by Bianca-Maria Ciucașu / 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. 
