I've known him for 10 years; I can honestly say I understand him almost perfectly. I know on which side he prefers to sleep, how much salt he wants in his food, what kind of movies he enjoys watching, what kind of music he listens to. I feel his every emotion, his every trouble. He can't stand it when I ask him too many questions. I know he dislikes making love in the morning but he loves hot showers. He enjoys being on Facebook when he is on the toilet and he doesn't want sugar in his coffee. And yet, after all these years, I still can't make head or tails out of why he doesn't leave his wife.
(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. 
