a beautiful soul belonging to a beautiful woman. And that beautiful soul was full of beautiful smiles. The beautiful woman felt the need to make another beautiful soul happy. She searched, day in and out of summer, and discovered. Each day she resolved to send a smile his way. Each time he thanked her and replied with a beautiful flower. And they lived happily ever after. On the anniversary smile numbered 10.000, the beautiful woman stuck a note which read: You don't have enough flowers for all the smiles in my soul.
(Translated by Ioana Diana Sandu / 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 December 2021, the group has 7.750 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. 
