What was I supposed to tell him about you? That you didn't want a child because you didn't want to assume any lifelong responsibility? That I fell in love with a man in whom I saw something which even he did not see? I did not tell him that, of course. I told him his father was a very talented man who dedicated his whole life to his career, but who, due to certain circumstances, was forced leave and become a hero. You are like Superman, so if you want to meet him, you will need to live up to expectations. If you disappoint him, I'll end you.
(Translated by Iulia-Teodora Urea / 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 May 2021, the group has 6.400 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale. 
