After the darkness sets in, your skin becomes smoother and more fragrant, your hair more unruly and tangled; your breasts get heavier and rounder, your abdomen firmer and flatter; your hips are wider, your buttocks tighter, your hands more skillful, your thighs more inviting; and your lips, oh, your lips, are greedier and moister. Everything changes. It's true that even my beard is not as wild, my hair not as grey, and my belly doesn't stick out as much. And, of all things, the moonlight makes my wallet, left on the nightstand, seem much thicker.
(Translated by Lucia-Alexandra Brînaru-Mitrofan / 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. 
