Liliana Georgescu, nurse in the Great War. Șerban Lazăr, womanizer. Aristide Hanțescu, milkman's assistant. Barbu Ienăchiță, butcher's apprentice. Puiu Romașcanu, aviator. Olimpia Silvestru, house maid, and in her spare time, working girl at The Stone Cross. Doru Motreanu, stage singer. All of them will have broken a flower at some point. With their stumpy, tender or gnarled fingers, with nails cut correctly or gnawed off. They'll have smelled it, looked at it, given it, at least once. That would be enough, Peter said.
(Translated by Andreea Tobă / 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. 
