A child made out of crystal, the opposite of indigo. Crystal, because from him are resonating all the sounds. Non indigo, because he does not copy anything: manners, words. Maybe just the parents' cries. When he was punching his head, they were sobbing together. Neither doctors nor churches succeeded in finding a cure. And maybe he did not need one, in a stage of
non-verbal evolution. In a world full of noises, he chose silence. My child is the warmest in the whole world. And I feel his love. Once upon a time, the universe chose me to be his father.
(Translated by Beatrice-Ioana Huruială / 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. 
