The most rebellious girl in Brăila. Smart, beautiful and non-conformist. She had a different outfit and a shocking appearance. Her perfume awakened all your senses and intoxicated you with the fragrance impregnated on her skin and clothes. She was covered in tattoos of skulls and lavender flowers. Eventually, she told me that her perfume was Lucky 13, she worked at a tattoo parlour with the same name and considered herself very lucky. The disease was merciless with her, but in the peaceful place where she has now moved, her essence can still be sensed.
(Translated by Ecaterina Bucovanu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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. 
