His gaze left her breathless. Her thoughts were out of her control, and her heart wasn't any better. She caught his hand and shoved him in the snow, falling next to him. They spent a few minutes looking up, with snowflakes on their lashes. He stuck out his tongue trying to catch one. Look, Silvi, it tastes like vanilla. I don't believe you, she answered, naughty, and bent over him. Let me have a taste. Their lips came together in a long, soft kiss. Unexpectedly. She gathered some snow in her palm and shoved it under his sweater. Ha ha, your chest is like a kiwi now. You got goosebumps. Brrr.
(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. 
