He learned how to eat alone in 730 days and how to look me in the eye when I taught him Jenga. He laughs at the commercial with the fruit that sings, but he can't tell me what's amusing him, because he hasn't learned to speak. But today Stefan called me mother for the first time when I handed him the bowl with fruits, after 9 years of painful waiting. The world of autism does not give anyone definite answers. But I look at him and I'm convinced of one thing. He is my world and belongs to my world, not after a fence that separates the different ones.
(Translated by Ana-Maria Mușetescu / 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. 
