His friends were a bunch of loonies, clearly showing off their youth, radiating happiness on that empty beach from the outskirts of the village. The nude girls were dancing in a circle. It was hot. The boys gathered next to a car that had been turned into a bar. My boyfriend was swimming in the sea and I was smoking a cigarette. Someone hugged me from behind and kissed my neck. Pleasantly. I let myself go under the sunshine. When I turned around, the man looked surprised. I'm not your girlfriend, I told him. But I can be. We exchanged phone numbers.
(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. 
