Go to daddy and tell him that mommy said
I love you. Daddy, mommy said
ailaviu. Go to mommy and tell her that daddy said
je t'aime. Mommy, daddy said
jtem. Go to daddy and tell him that mommy said
Sagapo agapo mou. Daddy, mommy said
sagapupumu. I always ended the game with: don't you know how to love each other in Romanian too? And how beautifully they knew how to love each other, with passion and daisies, with tango and mint liqueur, with me between them. Now two cemetery alleys separate them. Mommy, daddy loves you. Daddy, mommy loves you.
(Translated by Ioana Negrea / 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 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. 
