Belly. Ok, tummy. Or let it be, abdominal adipose tissue conglomerate, or even better, excrescence near the navel. Actually no. The best one, life ring. Exactly. That's it. A life ring which saves me of relationships, going to the beach, wearing crop tops. Belly. If I jump, she jumps with me, and if I run, it looks like she wants to fly. Physical exercises are not her thing. But I know how to make a good advertisement as well. I told my boyfriend that I am what he always has wanted and because she has me, he receives a bonus. The belly.
(Translated by Beatrice-Ioana Huruială / 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. 
