When she came to her senses, she found herself sprawled on the floor. Blinking rapidly, she saw the purse on the edge of the sink. She thought to herself that a breath of fresh air and a few cigarette puffs would get her back on her feet. She got up slowly, while a faint smile crept in at the memory of how she had found her soulmate somewhere at a party, under the moonlight. Outside, in the darkness, the snowflakes extinguished when they met the warm air coming from the bathroom. She lit her cigarette, ignoring the knocks at the door. Do you think you can hide, you little bitch?
(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. 
