How are you different from those who steal, rape and kill while crossing themselves? How are you better than the politicians or the priests who take advantage of believers to take their money? You got pregnant a woman who wasn't yours. Then you disappeared. What are you, a cuckoo? And that wasn't enough for you. You did everything in order for everyone to think I was crazy when saying whose son I am. And when I finally found a woman who didn't judge me, you were ready to stone her to death, because she told me something you have never experienced. What did she tell you?
(Translated by Ecaterina Bucovanu / 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 March 2023, the group has 10,790 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. 
