When you looked at him, he seemed to be a proper man, all his screws tight. I had fallen head over heels and was willing to do anything to please him. Plus, I had no inhibitions and was ready for new experiences. Roleplays, harnesses, whips, targets, clamps, and all sorts of oddities followed. But when he licked my 12-inch heels, begging me to call him Pooch while he was on all fours, something broke inside me. I ran out into the street just like that, in my dominatrix costume. The police asked me what caused the collision. My heart shattered into pieces, officer.
(Translated by Lucia-Alexandra Brînaru-Mitrofan / 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.