That's where you caught the disease. Come on, it's not that easy to get, it's not like chickenpox. You know very well what I mean, do you really need to go to the seaside every year? And it was a wonderful experience, do you remember those summers when just the two of us left on our motorcycles? The last thing you need at your 80 years and your melanoma is the motorcycle. Come on dear, admit it, you won't say no to be on road back with Mişu either. Oh, Mişule, Oh, love, come give me a kiss and bring that drawer stacked with old pictures to see once again your long ponytails.
(Translated by Luciana-Maria Buruiană / 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 August 2021, the group has 7.000 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, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale. 
