Love him desperately. Even when he's small and helpless, or big and furious. Love him after sleepless nights, after finding out he'd never understand your love and he'd remain forever small. A big dwarf, with the power of a god. Love yourself as well for the love he cannot give you, for the time when you want to kill him and argue over things he'd never understand. Because this is how you have anything left to give him. And when nothing works, remember how much you love him for the first time you embraced him.
(Translated by Elena-Diana Cocîr / 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 November 2021, the group has 7.500 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. 
