Statistics say that in relationships, it is men who initiate sex. It's like launching a spaceship. Women come out of the bathroom, perfumed, with a tiny towel around their hips, they lie lasciviously in bed, they smile seductively, but men are the ones who finally, and only in happy cases, launch a late rocket. Whenever glances, hints, touches, and even a lacy bra don't fly at them, they remain unidentified and misunderstood. UFOs lost in the space of terrestrially prescribed bonds.
(Translated by Florina Șamata / 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. 
