24, tears. 23, a bath, shaving. 22, expensive champagne. 21, the white dress, black nail polish and lipstick. 20, I call my mom, risky. 19, the vinyl with Pink Floyd. 18, freesias from the corner flower shop. 17, brownies. 16, the second champagne bottle. 15, a selfie. 14, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll. 13, I clutch
100 years of solitude to my chest. 12, why me. 11, tomato sauce pasta, French fries. 10, red wine. 9, David Bowie. 8, I smile to the heaven. 7, the demon descends. 6, white sheets. 5, the last cigarette. 4, I take a breath. 3, tears. 2, blood, 1, warmth. Light, Him.
(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. 
