Aura also bought a coffee for the old beggar woman who was trembling in the empty train station. Her frozen fingers quickly grasped the hot cup and a fading smile lightened her sad face. They drank in silence, then the old woman asked for her empty cup. She started telling her about the past, present and her future husband, with freckles and blond, curly hair. The train arrived shortly and Aura hurriedly got on. Next to her sat a blond man with freckles, dishevelled and a charming smile.
(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. 
