I knocked on your door. Knock knock. It would have been better if you hadn't answered. The devil wouldn't have entered, had you not said: Come in. It was summer, the window was open and it was too hot to ignore the dreams catcher. You liked the goose bumps in the heat of the night and the thought that was dripping honey. You were tempted by the snake-like words biting at your ankles. Lost in the sweet swinging, the bridge between life and death, you have acquired some little devils. And me, marked on your body. It would have been better not to love. But it was summer, you had a heart and dreamt of catching it.
(Translated by Bianca-Andreea Rîmboacă / 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. 
