Today love endlessly, he wrote on the front page. For? But the young motorcyclist took the book and apologized embarrassed: it's for my girlfriend, she loves you. But the old writer could no longer hear him. He could only feel the pressure of a rock on his chest. Then, like a white echo, the doctor's voice: we must find a heart for him by tomorrow. At sunrise, in the waiting room, a girl with a book in her hand received the news: the transplant was successful, that's all we can tell you. Then he opened the book and read the message:
Today love, drop of blood.
(Translated by Diana Stănescu / 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.
