We met at the nude beach. It was love at first sight. He loved the symbols on my left shoulder. I got to the point of feeling his fingers on my skin even when he wasn't with me. One day, after brushing his fingers over my shoulder, he said,
We have to draw the line, my almost perfect love. There's no way, you are crazy, I say. He left me on the hot sand. I entered the first tattoo salon. The eyes of the bearded men fell on my shoulder, You have an almost perfect Cassiopeia. I only have to draw a line.
(Translated by Bianca-Andreea Rîmboacă / 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. 
