During the first minute that I could remember, I tried to figure out where I was. Four eyes were staring at me as I was yelling. They called me Gabi after which I fell asleep. Then they took me to kindergarten, school, high school, I fell in love, I loved, I divorced, I named my first child In, I started drinking, the Revolution happened, my first apartment was too damn far away, then they opened a metro line at Drumul Taberei and everything went back to normal. My last seven minutes were spent watching the ceiling. The priest believed I would go to Heaven.
(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. 
