it was the hardest. A heartburn reminded his of all the embarrassment he had endured while drowning his sorrows at the beach bar. With his teeth yellowed, pollinated by artificial jealousy, the old man bit into the reddish apple with a salty crunch, because it was right by the sea where the soft sun was sucking warm rays of heat over her, while she was sleeping on the deck chair. His wife had hooked up with the kempo coach in full view of everyone. More precisely, they have danced all night, but in his mind, they had already smoked the cigarette afterwards.
(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / 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. 
