28.10.2022

My dearest, starting today and until the end of time, my entire self belongs to you. You can hold it gently and feed it with truths hidden beneath your forever warm smile. You can caress it. I give it to you. You can dress it however you please. You can suppress it if it brings you joy. You have my full permission. There are no limits. If you grow tired of it, you can even hang it in the closet of your past loves. It will fade from there, and in time, from yourself. Nobody will know the truth. Or, if you are courageous enough, let me be. Let me be here and not melted into you. Whole. Myself.

(Translated by Cristina Ioana Bontea / 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.

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