She hadn't really taken him seriously. Today, however, she felt she misses him and realized that she is in love. When she was with him, she was herself. She frantically ran to his house to tell him that. The door was open. She entered slowly in order to surprise him. She stopped in the middle of the room and from somewhere behind she heard: I love you. A sudden warmth flooded her body entirely. She turned but could see no one. Past the parrot's cage, she made her way to the bedroom, opened the door wide and before she could see who was inside, she shouted at the top of her lungs: I love you too.
(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 March 2023, the group has 10,790 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, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
