You again, cypress? How do I get rid of you? You come \'ere every day, sit down on that chair and only look at me, with those green eyes, makin' me lose count of the flowers and give the wrong change to clients. I felt such pity for you yesterday that I took you behind the curtains and showed you my tits. I indeed promised you I'd let you touch \'em, but I can't keep my promise anymore. Your dad, the lawyer, has just passed by and told me to leave you alone. \'Cause we're from parallel universes.
(Translated by Bianca-Andreea Rîmboacă / 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 June 2022, the group has 8,500 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. 
