The room was shrouded in a dim light and they danced as if they'd been dancing for a lifetime. The music rose lazily from the pickup and the room sank into the smoke. Her body clung clandestinely to his. He held her tightly so he could hear the pounding of her skin. They didn't speak the same language, but they were lovers in that dance. For each of his movements, a movement of hers followed, then they deepened themselves into their own bodies, like a twinkle in common rhythm. "Thank you", they said cruelly to each other at the end, and they shook off the barely finished feeling.
(Translated by Ioana Negrea / 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. 
