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Iulia Vîși
Summer is all about affairs. I quit sugar and other sweet nothings. Why don't you believe me? Don't laugh, I'm serious. Well, now that it has been mentioned I wouldn't mind you baking my little cake. Sorry, I'm hot, did you say something? I have fooled around with you in my thoughts a couple of times, rolling around in vanilla powder and teenage fantasies. I would have liked to swallow you but I don't like choking on seeds. Since we are already naked, let's take a shower together. We are one like two glued pieces. Maybe you will wash my hair or my memories. Excuse me, what room do you want me to smile at?

Siranuș Hakobian
I know that we haven't spoken in long time, but I wanted to tell you that you were right: I shouldn't have left you for Victor, because he wasn't a reliable person and he left me for another woman. Anyway, if you are no longer angry, I would like to come back home, to try and fix things, to grow our love from we have left off a year ago. Don't be so quick to say that it is not possible, our life and future together are at stake. Before I forget, in two months you are going to be a father. I was thinking about naming him Tudor, after your father. Let me send you a video of my tummy.

Ana-Maria Butuza
She entered the room as if she were a tornado. What are you doing here? he said piercing her with his glance. The brunette woman flung herself on the couch, she lifted her skirt above the knees revealing her long, thin and gorgeous legs. He looked at her amused. He couldn't resist her. She indifferently lit a cigarette and drew a long puff. You know what I want. The main role. It doesn't suit you, I have told you before. With a je m'en fiche gesture she unbuttoned the first buttons of her blouse, exposing the voluptuousness of her young chest. What does it matter. I got you the best rating, you are now rich.

(Translated by Cristina-Paula Grosu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / 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 September 2023, the group has 11,820 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.