there was a story like any other. A young man once stopped me on a street. It was summer in fall. 'You're beautiful', he whispered unexpectedly, but not inappropriately. With no idea of where he came from and confused, I got startled. And he, puzzled, got startled too. Two strangers, two destinies caught in a breeze of wind and rainy hearts. In the seasons' embrace, he shyly tried to tell me something, but with burning cheeks I shook my head in disapproval, and hurrying my steps, I took off leaving him gloomy like the weather outside.
(Translated by Ioana Diana Sandu / 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 December 2021, the group has 7.750 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. 
