The room was very well lit, as if everything just had to be seen. He sat on the bed and raised his shirt. He's looking very good. I'm now going to move to the right side. Ah, it's like he knew, come on, turn around so we can see. What a rascal. Wonderful. Now let's measure from this side as well. There is no need to worry, the heartbeats are normal, the organs have grown with no complications, he has all limbs. Yes, of course you can tell, you'll turn him into a football player. We will see each other again after two months. Is Wednesday ok?
(Translated by Jin Cristian Yang / 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 January 2021, the group has 3.000 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale. 
