I could try a rehab against your eyes. Your smile, more addictive than smoking, would be difficult to give up, but otherwise I don't think I could keep my appetites on a leash, from the carotid. For a while, I could live in withdrawal, delirious in silence on the streets and following hypnotized every figure in the windows, and your body, which has become my vice, would leak from my sight to the bottom of my feet. But I know for a fact that your steps through me will always lead me back to the scene of the crime, the first victim is to return to be killed again.
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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. 
