Hey, don't start before us. You think your DNA is better than ours? Baby, stop kicking your legs, it hurts mommy. Don't rush, there's still time. Cheeks, are you hungry again? Let me pull my boob out. New jeans? Wait a little bit, wear your brothers'. Kid, stop pulling them, you're going to tear them apart. I'll get them out myself. You want a permit? Wait. Not now, after the engagement. You want it every week? Wait until my migraine is gone. Why are you laying under the nut tree? It's too early? Don't you see my sickle is not here?
(Translated by Ana Spînu / 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. 
