He let me change the dishes in his cupboard, move his furniture around the house, arrange his books in the library. I put some of my cosmetics in a little wicker basket, my bathrobe on the peg next to the shower. In the nightstand next to the bed, I left a bra, about three pairs of panties and lots of orgasms. I colored the walls with love. Happiness. In my house, I'm suffocated by walls, sofas, paintings, curtains, silences, souvenirs, pots, pans, sink, routine. But it's the wedding ring that chokes me the most.
(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. 
