Granny didn't go to school, child of 1908. School during the First World War? Growing up I wondered how did she count the chicks and eggs. Pops had taught her, with only four classes, teamster at ACP, the village shoemaker. In the summer when he passed away I was 14, he asked me to read him the book next to the bed. Youth Without Aging and Life Without Death. I was reading and bawling. Five years later, she left the village to her birth place, around 10 km away. She sat in a ditch and sent her soul to the Heavens. With her broken language, I reincarnated her in myself.
(Translated by Daniela-Andreea Gugescu / 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. 
