She gave up ballet when the skirts for the Christmas show came in. Hers was so big, that the dressmaker used it to wrap all the others. She loved to stretch out and jump to that music. But she, with her tent-like skirt, didn't belong there. In gym class she asked the teacher to put her on the boys' basketball team. But, Flori, the boys run fast, they're stronger, they push each other and they'll laugh at you. Girls laugh too, Teach', I can push them too.
(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. 
