The door creaks open lazily, leaving room to a peculiar sight. There are ten chairs in the shadowy room, positioned towards each other, two by two. Only one chair is languorously showing off its nakedness, a sign that it's waiting for her. The anxiety punctures his chest, but she sits down without hesitation. Fragments of the other's dialogues are climbing up his eardrum. He relaxes his body with a long breath. He will pass the test. His memories are inside his soul, not in his brain. They can't erase them. The new-Her is stealthily peering at him from the mirror.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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. 
