I've made up so many movies in my head that Hollywood seems nothing compared to my house. When I was little, I wanted to become a doctor. I grew up and started to tell myself that there were too many lines for this role, so I gave up. Then I fell in love and started a
TV-series with him in the main role, and little by little I turned into a minor character in my own movie. Unfortunately, the series had no happy ending. Something good came out of this, a movie for children with my daughter in the leading role. But I feel like I have yet to play the role of my life.
(Translated by Mihaela Dumitrescu / 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. 
