He suspected her of hiding something. His wife had flourished too much since she went to this club. He didn't know anything about what she was doing there, who she was meeting, only that she was coming home late at night with a crazy craving for him. He had no reason to complain, nor did his curiosity bother him. His wife continued to flourish and the man began to pay more attention to her, gave up fishing, found himself admiring her legs. He loved her again. The woman recited the last sentence. He had finished his homework for the fiction club.
(Translated by Andreea-Alexandra Șerbănescu / 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. 
