She felt catapulted in that village at the edge of the world, where she had come to take possession of a house left by an aunt she didn't remember much about. One evening, when she couldn't fall asleep because of the summer heat, she decided to see what was going on at the village pub. She was wearing her men's suit and much too high heels. She asked for an Espresso Martini. Both her and the bartender laughed. She enjoyed a cold beer. She's been going back every few months ever since. The little house has a garden now. It's where she hides from everyone and everything.
(Translated by Raluca Ioana Crucerescu / 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 June 2023, the group has 11,430 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. 
