Deep cleaning. The green linen dress hasn't seen the light of the day since our first date, 5 years ago. I haven't touched the pink shirt with puffed sleeves since the last Dragobete - you said I looked like a diva, though I was a mess. Not even the black cardigan with painted sleeves, bought by you in Vienna because I was cold and hadn't packed warm clothes, have I worn since you left. At this rate, I'll have to go shopping. Maybe I won't give them away. They can collect dust in the attic, next to the others, in the room of forgotten happiness.
(Translated by Ioana Ștefan / 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. 
