Anime

Andra Toropoc
She talks about the mergers of the old stars of the universe with such passion that I break out of the traditional boredom. She's wearing too much lipstick but that's precisely what accentuates the depth of her words. She says the Big Bang expanded from a hot, dense singularity billions of years ago. I'm paying more and more attention, this theory sounds like a gang-bang to me, suddenly I like the subject matter and I'm drawing it all off the blackboard, the meticulous curves of the teacher's butt, while she gives her allto her favorite students.

Aurelian Țolescu
I enjoyed my first comics when I was a little kid. I adored my brother's collection of Pif comics, which enchanted my childhood. By 6th grade, Santa Claus had brought me a subscription to Pif and sensational gadgets. Some I still keep to this day. Over time, I also watched Rahan and, of course, Japanese comics. My daughter adores Manga which I follow with great difficulty, from the back of the book to the first cover. Now, after 50 years, I admit to looking, with curious shyness, at Hentai[1] fantasies. Sanda Burță
She closes the blinds, closes her eyes, and grandma Asami appears panting. Wait, girl, let me catch my breath, she laughs with a ragged mouth. You're still little and stupid, you don't know what it's like to climb from the bottom of your heart to the back of your eyelids. Are the pencils sharp? Uh-huh, nods the girl, and from under her fist a snake begins to grow, eating a slice of heart. She beat you again? Uh-huh, and the slice of heart turns into a dragon, swallows the snake and burps. Grandma kisses her on the top of the head, yawns, then goes down into the bottom of the heart again.

(Translated by Andreea Cristina Moise / 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 December 2023, the group has 12,210 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.