The door is creaking miserably. I quickly slip into the hallway of the house, which seems to be
half-shadowed. I heat the food and place The B Journal next to the plate, open to the page with all sorts of things while the sun is reflecting my face on the stainless steel pot. I put the salted caramel cream in two cups. I put her slippers next to the armchair, the coffee on the grey table, and turn on the TV just before the TV news cast begins. I am lying down on the couch, flipping through the pages to the bent corner, writing under it the number of days since she left me.
(Translated by Roberta Ana-Maria Gulerez / 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 May 2022, the group has 8,350 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. 
