Girl, I don't know what else to do in this heat. I'm continuously sweating. I take three showers a day for nothing. I sweat even between the legs, to the point that I'm scared to go out, of it smelling, you know? Especially since I noticed some bumps too - I thought they were caused by sweating, but then I saw that Gicu has them too. I asked him, obviously, but he swore up and down that he is clean; he showers too. Ah, just so you know, he is going to come over, he said that he forgot something at your place the last time he brought that fan to you since you were also suffering because of the heat. God let this summer be over already.
(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. 
