The first time I fell in love with an Aries. I wrote him poems with rhymes taken from the stars, he stuck his horns in them. Then I loved a Cancer; I wanted to make love from the front, he insisted on doing it from behind. I also met a Gemini; I left him, he was bipolar. I tried with a Libra, but he kept count on every hug. Tauruses are too hard, Lions too lions, Sagittarians shoot their arrows too deeply into your heart, I fear Scorpios, Aquarians are too much of a Capricorn. Now there's a Pisces chasing me. I told him to leave me alone, I'm a Virgo.
(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. 
