Laura and Andrei touched their fingers lightly, like a zephyr. Then they squeezed them tightly. Their hearts pounded like two frightened squirrels. Especially hers, still wounded. They looked ahead, down the alley paved with reddish leaves. They walked like that for a while and when they looked at each other, the fireflies in their eyes were alive. They touched their lips, then devoured them hoarsely. They walked over to her and got to know each other better. Orgasmically well. And tomorrow? She asked, her eyes steamy with hope. I saw the hearts in your eyes, he said. I won't leave you.
(Translated by Anca Maria Florea / 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. 
