The first train ride ever since I became a young lady and my emotions are all over the place, just like the people's sweat. Well, heatwave, a fried fish, I'm humming a little too loudly and a man can hear me. Is the bag too heavy? I think he wants to help me, which is why he keeps pushing himself to my butt clothedin Juice-branded shorts. I get indignant, I couldn't get rid of the bullying habits, nor of the crown jewels that were hanging out my lace panties. I'm cussing out the surgeon that postponed my complete transformation until fall. I am batting my eyelashes, however.
(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. 
