You know, mum - we never talked about this because you and dad ran away from this topic - I feel like I'm on this beautiful, empty beach, and the girl shows her the picture on her laptop. That's exactly what my life's like right now. You got divorced, and I seem to have everything when I actually have nothing. Dad's this ship that will never dock because you won't let him, mum, and you're the sand burning my feet with your absurd,
over-the-top love. What do I have to do to see him and for you to stop fighting over me?
(Translated by Carla Bețianu / 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 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. 
