Real Fiction / Florin Piersic Jr., Dan Banu, Cristina Daniela Dumitru-Pascal, translated by Laura-Monica Doroiman: The Only Thing That Matters

Florin Piersic JrIt’s been twenty minutes. I open WhatsApp. Two check marks. My message has been delivered. But she hasn’t read it. She hasn’t read it yet. Maybe she’s busy. Or maybe I’ve become too insistent. Or maybe she’s just indifferent. Or maybe she’s sleeping. Or taking a shower. Or maybe it doesn’t matter at all. I’ll …