The smoking hot bimbo was reading the news that came as a bombshell, enjoying some bonbons. She wasn't one for bombastic talk, but the Bombay gin in front of her sweetened things a bit. When the sloppy waiter accidently stepped on her, he muttered something along the lines of an apology. The thick-necked guy bombed in his attempts to get with her. Her nerves were a ticking time bomb. He thought he could impress her by bombarding her with cliches, coming from who knows what kind of bomb-looking neighborhood. He was also hammered. Couldn't take it anymore. It blew up.
(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. 
