I put them in
fast-forward. You promised me we'll leave together. I told you I'm ready in 5 minutes, but you couldn't wait. You went THERE before me, and now I have to close my zipper by myself for the rest of my life. So I couldn't wait either. I've packed my bags a long time ago. I took with me the dots from my dresses, the dancing steps and the shops from my young days, I folded them, I tied them with the smile of the reunion and put them in the suitcase. I hold it tight to my chest. I'm coming to you, I'm coming so that we can be US again. Is the coffee ready?
(Translated by Ioana Busuioc / 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. 
