I had imagined her rolling around in the white sheets of my bed so many times, but I didn't dare tell her, until I said I'd try coffee because I knew it worked, though I never understood why. So I invited her up and she accepted, of course, and the evening was embodied in the sensual ripples of coffee steam through which, obviously, I took her in my arms to kiss her, only for her to reject me (I didn't understand why) and throw it briefly in my face: coffee's good enough for me, you know.
(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. 
