20.10.2023

The day before she turned 18, the neighbourhood witch guessed her fortune in coffee. I see some letters, she said, a k, two i's and a w. Look here, she showed her the letters, white in the fine brown sap: k-say-i-say-w-say-i. Luiza laughed then: maybe there's a lot of brown curd from the kiwi, which I'm allergic to. Now, 30 years later, Luiza is a kiwi bird biologist in the land of kiwi people, married to one of them, whom she met at the hospital after a nasty kiwi cocktail diarrheic.

(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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.

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