So many friendly talks, long walks, coffees drunk together until his hands and heart are shaking and he doesn't know if it's love or caffeine intoxication, so much patience, so many smiles, praises and doe eyes, book launches and exhibitions, and what does he manage to ask her? Will you come with me in places with lots of people, where we stay in the dark and sigh in unison? He turned red all over when she asked him how he had the guts to ask that, who did he think she was. He almost shouted at her to make himself heard: I'm talking about TIFF. I'm inviting you to the movies at TIFF.
(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. 
