She spitefully spits in the white dust. He stole this one too, the third one, and a sack of gold with it too. She mounted and picked up his trail. She arrived at dawn, tied her horse and looked around. Nothing. She entered the empty tavern and sat waiting. She recognized him by his beautiful smile, meant to make her lose her head, and she followed him. Since then, her smile is anchored on her face as on top of a spike every time she sees him. Every time she sees him. Well, since then, I've been the only bounty hunter in the land, she smiled back, excitedly.
(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. 
