The alarm clock's thorn-like alarm goes off in us, groggy after only two hours of deep, sweaty sleep. I rush to the wardrobe and search, find, hurry off to work. Towards evening we meet in front of the shop window as we agreed, she catches my ragged fingers with her fingers looks at me in surprise and slyly kisses the shoulder of my brown berry-printed dress. We parley the spring twilight air and enter the shop. We buy an automatic espresso machine and a one-pound bag of coffee beans. In his eyes is written that we will sleep again.
(Translated by Andreea-Iulia Ciucă / 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. 
