Take a look around the house. Spotless. Open the window and wait. Listen to the high-pitched voice of the neighbor, Fănel, today Libras have the chance to meet a special person. What do you think? She doesn't believe in astrology, but she is an accountant, it's the 25th of the month, it's possible the neighbor is right. She looks in the mirror. She might be trying out the new curling iron. Her curls highlight her somewhat tired face. She discreetly puts makeup on. Lip gloss or red lipstick? Lip gloss. Red lipstick if we go to dinner. Put your high-heels on and call for a cab.
(Translated by Denisa Stanciu / 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. 
