Mrs. Louise Brooks haircut: you will meet the stranger of your dreams. Mr. Shrill Jacket: there will be showers accompanied by thunderstorms. I grab my umbrella and shortest skirt, I put on my blue mascara, I sigh in purple, and put on my underwear inside out. In the street, Noe is bouncing me through knee-deep puddles. I wait for the tram, minutes pass, floods flow, the leaden city smelling like a grave. One wave takes me till we get to the shore, another one unfolds me. A maidenly thought: I want land. The coroner cuts the skirt humming: in death down to the ass.
(Translated by Andreea-Daniela Vasilache / 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 July 2022, the group has 8,750 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. 
