What does let's talk mean to you, except shut up and listen? The moment you open your mouth is when I hear pigeons for the first time that year, when you breathe, the linden trees shed their leaves, when you move your glottis to swallow the saliva, I can hear the thunders of Saint Elijah's feast. In the meantime, we eat, sleep, drive around the overcrowded city like crazy. I am the puppy that move sits head with every change of direction. Sometimes I am the monkey, suction cupped on the rear glass. You bought my life with that creamy coffee. I forgot what it tasted like, just like you forget to shut up now.
(Translated by Ruxandra Adriana Dodoiu / 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. 
