I was absent all day. I can't think of anything else. I miss her. Her lust for life. Is this true love? I don't go out on break. I sit at my computer with my eyes focused on my own thoughts. The boss thinks I'm struggling with the budget. He tells me that if I keep it up, I'm in for a bonus for sure, or a qualification one floor up. What a Good thing That we can't read each other's minds. I finally get home. As I open the door I see the collar and light in the bedroom. I get down on all fours. And I wait for them to call me.
(Translated by Cristina-Nicoleta Costache (Mircea) / 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. 
