Dad, how did you come to realize that Mom was the one? As she passed me, I felt a gush from the Babylonian Gardens and asked her with a smile if she was an Anunnaki goddess. She replied that Nibiru girls don't fall for Earth tricksters. After countless declines, she agreed to bunk with me one starry night. I can still remember the caffeinated scent that lingered on her lips when we first kissed. It was something intense that made me want to put a Saturn ring on her finger.
(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. 
