She had her head full of videos and personal development books, psychology and
self-modeling. He, a former sportsman, was now making living his life on the couch. She liked to read, he would not get near books as if they were infected with a dangerous virus. She went to bed early, he went to bed after 1a.m. because he couldn't sleep. Until one day when she packed her bags, he was left with the TV and phone games. In 2022, the relationships with a game are longer than those with another being.
(Translated by Paula-Silvia Codescu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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 February 2022, the group has 7,950 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. 
