She would have given anything to get rid of the routine, so she was very happy when he said that he would go on a business trip. She ironed his white business shirt, then kissed him quietly when he left. Finally, free. She got on the train and in an hour she was in front of the hotel, close to the bitch. Drowsy from the heat, she went out to the balcony, looking at the bypassers indifferently. She did not hesitate for one second when she told the room number to the stranger that had stopped and asked if she wanted to go back. In a pub nearby you can hear a sad pasoodoble.
(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. 
