She pulls the bills out of her bra and panties. A cheap and dirty night like a window on which spitting contests have been held. When she was little she dreamed of being a princess. Fate crammed her into the pub across the street. Chased by the shadows of sweaty ecstasy, she runs through the streets. In a starry corner of the night, the other stage awaits her. A beggar polishes her pole. She grabs hold of it, climbs it in a fluttering rhythm, and in a heart-breaking adagio her body buzzes upwards and bites with the milk teeth of the forgotten little girl, from the blackness of the universe.
(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / 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. 
