I don't think of you, when I walk in the cabin I just want to know how my tie looks. The day passes too quickly and I reach the block again, and cables pull me to another box where my life has been lonely for a while. I see myself in the little mirror, I don't care about the tie and I don't care to know where the
well-known perfume is coming from, maybe from the buttons you used to press while playing with them. But I don't think about you anymore, maybe I hear another laugh and my lip twitches, I in my elevator, you in another and between us a story that has never been written before.
(Translated by Delia-Maria Cocoș / 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. 
