He picks them up in bars. He brings them home, suggesting a threesome, it's just that the third party is an inflatable doll. Maternal alter ego. Zoli is a fat, lecherous dude, with a pedophile allure. He has money coming from a paralyzed mother. Nobody's seen her, nobody asks. The girls are thrill-seeking minors. He lives in a house just outside Salonta. Down in the basement, under the dim light coming from a small window, they discovered kiwi saplings growing out of the tied up bodies of the missing girls.
(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. 
