It was an ordinary morning. He was walking with the 8 o'clock meeting in mind. He hurried as usual, but stopped. His eyes were sleepy and he looked at her through the window. He imagined what it would be like to, but no. She had a few pounds to shed. Maybe after a month or two. After he got his belly off. And yet he wanted her. He kept looking at her. He got in front of the salesgirl. He asked for a black coffee. He looked again at the window. Fuck. I'll take it, he told himself. He pulled out the money. I also want that chocolate muffin for takeaway.
(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. 
