Did you eat? She pulled up her sweater's collar and hurried past her, saying: After 18 years, mother, don't you have anything else to ask? She went to the Juvenile Care Center to get her contraceptives; they had helped her with an abortion. She was still rebelling inside: You never asked me if I was hungry for love, you never told me what to do when I was burning with desire, you're even embarrassed that I have breasts, but you don't know about the bite on my neck, mother; you only told me your outdated stories. I'm not afraid of the wolf, the beast is inside of me.
(Translated by Marius-Alin Lazăr / 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. 
