Spontaneous as they were, they had fled on holiday from a toxic Bucharest to the place where the sea and the Danube sealed their date with their first and last kiss. The small white house with the blue door discreetly received their love. No questions asked. The harmony between them took them by surprise, unexpectedly creating the outline of steps of a couple with a palpable chance of longevity. The end of the story unfolds naturally. The last night. The sea swallows the sun apotheotically. George asks. The ring from a beer bottle is wrapped around Diana's finger. Yes.
(Translated by Oana Ionescu / 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. 
