20 years since the transplant. The doctor had done the operation and one day he appeared in front of her stripped of the mask of man sure of himself. With brittleness in his eyes and in his smile that was making her feel terrified of how much she could love him. She wished to hear the thrills in his eyes and with her lips to feel the unrest. But he took her one dream captive. He drew it from one end to the other, vertically and horizontally, he coloured thoughts, he tattooed silences and he wrote a soul. The shadows were only a red thread on Zara's chest.
(Translated by Jessica-Polixenia-Cristiana Copilaș / 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 May 2023, the group has 11,260 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. 
