During the day, with the perseverance of an ant, I climb on the ordinary. Shower, pairing it with the reflection in the mirror, French braid, regular suit, coffee, orthopaedic shoes, sweet smile, pleasantries with the next-door neighbour. Then it comes the dusk. Sumptuous. I gulp down from the roundness of the moon and open my pores like a true Night Lady flower. Rebellious curls, satin fur dress, seductively revealing the kneecap, high heels hitting the cobblestones jerkily, the tip of the tongue moistening red lips. The club. The kiss. Ruined bedding. Down. Me. Reloaded.
(Translated by Tania Diniță / 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. 
