From the stands, she spreads her hands up and sideways, like a bird frozen in air, then she plunges down, with the eyes wide open, into the vibration above the electrified audience on the turf, she lets herself wrapped into a veil of their caresses, a butterfly breath, just like a lifeguard in a mission, between life, water, death and the sky, the last time she flew like this was on his motorcycle, fondling with her fingertips the air of happiness, now she is learning to walk, dance, and, more importantly, love for two.
(Translated by Daniela-Andreea Gugescu / 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. 
