The bench in front of your apartment building brings forth so many memories. There I read you the first poem and also then we you gave me our first kiss, which was actually the first kiss of our lives. Also, there we confessed all kinds of things and we made a ton of plans. You climbed on that bench after snatching the cap with Italy from my head, and which by the way you never gave back to me. And also, the same bench was witness to all my tears, in the day in which you realized I was not what you were looking for.
(Translated by Jessica-Polixenia-Cristiana Copilaș / 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. 
