No it's No. No it's No when my skirt is too short and you can see my panties. No it's No when he's gay or transgender. No it's No even if the house is full of empty bottles. No one asks for it and No stays No in the dark or when we're alone and afraid of the shadows. No it's No when she comes up to your apartment or stays overnight. No always stays No when it's said in a whisper or loudly or hidden in a push. No stays No in court, but also at the table where your folks are trying to find you a good lawyer.
(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. 
