She was sensual, delicate, and he wanted her. She's walking towards him with feline-like moves, smiling provocatively. Her lips softly touched his slightly-open mouth, in anticipation. They fell into the bed, one on top of the other, in a hot and passionate embrace. The summer heat softened their senses. In her hand, a pocket knife shone. She sank it in to the hilt, looking into his wide-open eyes. She caressed him with bloodied hands. It's a noble sacrifice contributing to the immortality of your genes. You know, my nickname is The Nun.
(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.