She was taking a shower when he burst in on her. He quickly removed his clothes and, without asking her anything, he pressed his body against hers. Stop thinking about our fight, he asked, then they both let their skins cling to the water. She started to cry softly. Say something, he whispered, kissing away her tears. I'm tired, she replied touching her lips with a finger. They were silent for a while, both lost in the sound of the water, then they got dressed. They closed their suitcases. And left. Each to their own home and family.
(Translated by Andreea Teodorescu-Colciu / 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. 
