I am at Măcin and I'm cooking some food. I'm baking bread and pies. Someone walks through the kitchen door. Are you hungry, grandma? No, I'm good, your mother gave me some boiled eggs to eat today. And you don't want anything else? No, because I'm full. I wake up and I call my mother. Did you give away boiled eggs for grandma? Yes, I gave for your grandmother and for your father. But how do you know? Well, she told me herself. She was full. You dreamt about her again. Again, dear, again. Grandma is dead since 2015. Only that I have wireless phone with her.
(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. 
