Grandma, the girls stole my doll and threw it in the river. Darling, stop crying, you will get over it. Daddy, the kids are always laughing at me for having pimples on my face. Little girl, just wait and you will get over it. Mommy, the boy from high school that I have a crush on called me dumb. No worries, dear, you will get over it. When I gained weight and told my husband that I wanted to start a diet and go to the gym, he responded with a laughter: just wait, tomorrow you will see the cake and you will get over it. And now? Now I am still not over it, don't you get it? The doll is my witness.
(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. 
