I open the blinds and slice the sky, I'm on a dream diet, greedy by nature, I'd sip my coffee and the day with three mouthfuls, I can't wait for the tram to go through the intersection. I close my eyes and see a girl in the back seat nestled in my book, she looks up to smear her smile over the morning, she's quivering with impatience that we'll meet and someday it'll come true. It's preordained, we'll hold hands until the planets align, today we're ascendant over the white sheet, but we're still afraid to write it.
(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. 
