We made a habit of sleeping in the attic room on weekends. Monday morning, rain and wind, I set off nervously on my motorcycle, but bad luck caught up with me, my engine quit. Full of rage and soaked to the skin, I turned around and climbed straight into the attic next to my wife. Love, it's so cold outside, I say and I hug, her shaking all over. She replies, snugggling up to me very sleepy: imagine, darling, that my husband went to work in this storm on his motorcycle.
(Translated by Andreea Ciubuc / 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. 
