And, what brings you here? In Tinder language, most of the time, it means that you need an Uber and Durex. And it's ok. When you're 20. But as you get closer to 30 or you're past it, you also want the rest of the menu. Huggs,
cuddles, ruffled hair in the morning. Because it is only this way that you feel whole and loved. Only this way do you know that everything will be alright in front of an unknown future. A simple smile from her or that look that's only for you is everything that you need in order to become the most powerful being in the universe.
(Translated by Adelina-Maria Mănăilescu / 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 February 2023, the group has 10,500 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. 
