Every love ends up in suffering. There was a story of them having laughed together for a lifetime, but in the end one of them died, and the other wept. In another story, the son had left, laughing towards living as they stood in the threshold, crying over the last close image of their son. In another story, the end of love made one leave, and the other one suffered, or the other way around. Play the role, Pierrot. Play it as if you'd sadly laugh, play it as if you'd cry of happiness. To the left - the tall mountains, to the right - the endless sea. Always walk on this road. You heart is your everything. Do not rush.
(Translated by Carol Popa Zafiriadi / 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. 
