I walk along the railway tracks and try to keep my balance. I'm getting tired. I lay my suitcase and head down. I'm listening. The train isn't coming and I don't understand why. My creator will die in a train station. I say it's karma, after all he also threw me in front of a train. I was married, I had everything, but he had it in for me. How do you tempt a woman? You throw her way the demon of desire. You twist her mind and her heart. Then you make her destroy her life in the name of love. Desire is the driving force of the world. The tracks vibrate. All happy families are the same.
(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. 
