She's sitting relaxed at the table of one of the coffee shops in Dresden, so close to the clear water of Elbe that if she stretched out more, she would have been able to touch it. Shelooks around at the people and occasionally writes out one more sentence in the Final Draft. She closes her eyes and seems to deeply take in the red September light. She does that naturally, with the familiarity that only routine can offer. She is present in the moment, she is living then and there. She is happy. She is my version, just one decision away. From every second of a world where I loved myself enough.
(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. 
