And what if I told you today that I need your smile like a last gulp of air? To pamper me, ruffle my hair and break into tiny pieces each thought you're missing from? If I told you, would you give it to me? Would you turn towards me to see how stars twinkle in my eyes out of excitement? How my soul giggles knowing you exist, somewhere, in your own corner in the world, and that one day we will randomly meet face to face and smile at each other? You would probably ask for my lighter, or a cigarette, and we would sit silently, smoking away 256 moments.
(Translated by Diana Pașcanu / 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. 
