I took the dress I was going to buy tomorrow on and went to the train station. As I was waiting for a non-existing train, the most handsome man I've never met sat beside me. I fell in love with the gesture that he didn't make, with the embrace he didn't have the courage to give me, with all the words that he didn't know how to utter. One day I asked him to give me a real feeling. He couldn't do it. And so, I got on the train that which was going fast, in a single direction. To reality.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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. 
