This person hung their underwear to dry on the wire and the wind swept it up. It fell right on the sweaty face of a street worker. He took a deep breath, tasted it and swallowed the smell. He had to find her. They would make love, have sex. He wanted her to be his only. He felt her hands slowly going down on his abdomen. She unzipped his pants slowly, whispering in his ears. During that whole hormonal storm that he got himself into, he couldn't hear that someone from the second floor was calling him. He looked up: he forgot that he was strolling through a transexual neighbourhood.
(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. 
