I was waiting for you on the blank canvas of life. You handed me your apple and I bit it with a kiss. My mouth plunged up and down with the emotion swallowed by you and the hot vibration in your voice. I want you, that's all you said and you stirred my being deeply. I looked up to the sky of your eyes and my face bloomed as I saw your flame. You have embraced me in it and burned all my seeds of darkness. And once again, you redrew my world in a thousand suns bursting on endless fields of longing.
(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / 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. 
