Go away. I love you. I am fat and ugly. You are gorgeous and have the body of a star. So, you dream of others. No, just of you. Why? I'm not like your famous
ex-lover. And I'm glad for that, because I broke up with her. You seem to feel sorry for this; you're free. I'm not, I'm with you. So you'd like to be. Go away. I love you, you're smart, good, as warm as fresh bread. So I'm not beautiful, I'm just a peasant girl, I say. Go away, you're in a hurry. Go away. Why are you in such a hurry? You told me to go away. Well, com' on, don't make a fuss of it.
(Translated by Anca Cristina Ilie / 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 October 2021, the group has 7.275 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 Ficțiuni Reale. 
