Come in, the voice scribbled over the air, coming from behind the shelf with plushies. I saw her immediately: crooked spine, shivering, a pair of blue eyes on a shadow human. No, you don't need childhood memories, they're kinda dusty anyway. Down here, easy, don't touch the fury's bells, and we're here. For you I found some ambition, there was enough left, and it goes well with bitter coffee and the lack of sweets. I see you still have a spark in you - would you be interested in some romanticism? It's only second hand, slightly tained, but still hot.
(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 April 2022, the group has 8,175 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. 
