In order to get to know me you have to discover all my demons, he said and she smiled, that's how much she loved him, but she wouldn't have guessed he had this many or that she wouldn't be able to meet them all till the end, so that even now, while entering the room, she asks herself, like every other time, which demon she will meet and relish in the thought that what had kept them together all along had been neither love, nor the breakups, but the joy of finding each other again in so many shadows or, the way he put it, at least we didn't get bored.
(Translated by Marta Fulga / 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. 
