I don't even like coffee, but I always walk along the Victory Avenue and only stop at the coffee shop if I see her there. I always order a flat white, just like her boobs. But it's okay that she has small breasts, because I don't even like big breasts. And anyway it's good that she doesn't have one of those huge cleavage things so I can look at her chest without looking like some kind of freak. And I have to look down because if I look into her eyes I get lost through the entire universe and I get scared. A latte, please.
(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. 
