So tell me, are my eyes blue right now? Yesterday evening they were brown. The woman is looking me in the eyes. They are brown, grandma. They can't change colour overnight. After a few moments of silence, her eyes light up again. Are they blue now? No, grandma. Offf. I told the schoolboy I can turn my eyes blue anytime. But grandma, I am the one who goes to school, I'm young. You're old. The woman looks at him in an astonishing manner. Am I old every day? Offf. Why have you brought flowers? It's your birthday, grandma. The woman comes closer. Are they blue now?
(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. 
