Who do you want to be? Iron Man, to save the planet. I want to be a little dog, Bobiță, to know the language of dogs for when we play. And you? My mother, I want to be her, exactly her with the dress and hair and earrings. To make coffee, dad to laugh that her heart's made of milk again, to set the table with flowers and napkins, to read at night Țupy. Where are you going? Mom, yearningly whimpered, involuntarily. Then, angry at heroes, doctors, himself, slammed, as hard as he could, again and again, the boulder on the road, until he felt like dying and the leg pain was greater than the one inside.
(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. 
