The heaviest fightings in my life were with lies and mathematics. I took my notebook of private classes in my arms and hid the coin of happiness. I sprang from under my mother's eyes, to the door of the flat with the speed of an enamored teenager. He lifted the receptor and without waiting for a word, I confessed the plan for that afternoon in a single breath. I skipped the classes for him. I will never forget his answer: you called home, to your mom, you, airhead.
(Translated by Teodora Stoian / 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. 
