You need to become a children's doctor like Serafima, the aunt from Bacău, everyone appreciated her, you saw how many people came to her funeral and how expensive were the flowers she had on her coffin and how all the children she took care of cried. So many flowers, so many girls and boys. That's really, really nice. And what a preparation they made with everything, and you'll see at the memorial what it will be like. Very nice. You should do the same, it's a pity for you, you're so good at learning, and maybe you'll succeed in life, to have lots of flowers on your grave.
(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. 
