02.06.2022
Balance, darkness and fear like a terrible claw. My fingers dug in his arm, we clenched our bodies, and on my temples I felt his lips whispering the words that were deafening to me: I don't want to die. I comforted his cheeks with trembling touches as his lips engulfed my mouth and our breaths melted in desperate kisses with the raw taste of life's desire. The retort that came twisted a lot of concrete and iron, and the two strangers were united forever.

(Translated by Andreea Denisa Dinu / 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.

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