I flap my arms around to make way. I dance. I'm hot. I'm sweaty. I lift my T-shirt above my belly button and make a knot. I bite my lip for no reason. I meet some rando who hugs me too tight, then bends over and kisses me on the belly. A girl grabs my hand and drags me along. We go on like that towards the DJ. I spin around. I am touched and I touch in return. My body is moving. I love to dance. For days at a time. I have no care in the world. I am free. I am energy. I am still 20 years old. I live for this. I blink. It all goes away.
(Translated by Bianca Ioana Prisecaru / 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. 
