Like I said, I really love coffee. The smell of it, the color, the memories it scalds in my heart. I gave you the first latte, without any thought, as a courtesy. Absently, but with much enjoyment of you, I kissed the taste of well-roasted Ethiopian until you saw me. You rewarded me with a satellite ride. That's how I understood the risk of sharing a lousy cup of coffee, too early or too late compared to the thousands of anorgasmic trips that had spoiled my urge to schedule more waxing.
(Translated by Anca Maria Florea / 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. 
