I get to the hotel, enter the room and take a quick shower. I lay lasciviously in bed. I wait. The air conditioner is broken. I feel my skin wet. He will be here in a few moments. I breathe more and more heavily. I'm always nervous on first dates. My hair and nails are done, I'm all shaved, and I'm wearing enough perfume. An hour went by. Five. Ten. I'm still in bed, my eyes fixated on the ceiling. Around one at night, I dress myself up and go down. Before leaving the hotel, I turn to the receptionist and ask him with teary eyes: Do you want to have sex?
(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. 
