You cannot be buried together because you do not believe in the same God. We can put him over there, behind that fence. That's the old way. He had to follow your religion or you had to follow his. No, it doesn't matter that you've loved each other for years. Yes, maybe in God's eyes it matters, but here on earth, it doesn't. That's just it. Next time, choose a man of the same faith. Like what next time. Anyway, there was a saying. Now there's nothing to be done. And it's nice over there by the fence. It doesn't even matter.
(Translated by Andreea Grințescu / 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. 
