I am still there. You one day left me standing on the platform, telling me that you do not know what you want and when you would be back. But I loved you and I stood there waiting for you. I was only carrying a broken heart too big for my body. With my heart in my hands, I sought shelter everywhere, but there was no room, everyone was telling me that my heart was too big. I wandered around with my too big heart everywhere. Nobody welcomed me. Eventually, as I kept waiting for you, my heart sank. Now there is place for me in the waiting room. But I do not know any longer what I am waiting for.
(Translated by Delia-Maria Cocoș / 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. 
