What a beautiful woman. She always takes this tram in the morning. How elegantly she's dressed, how graceful and robust. Oh, to see her at noon, when the light comes through the windows. Or in the evening, when the sunset pours honey over the depot. Did you ever talk to her? She answers to no one. In the evening she comes down and walks away, sits on a park bench and covers her eyes. The enigmatic passenger, or the iron road to Nadir, wrote one journalist. What could be her secret? I think love is a ticket to the end of the line and back.
(Translated by Andreea Ciubuc / 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. 
