Outside, it snows with a reminder of childhood, and over me are snowing memories. Alla Pugacheva sings silently to me
Million Roses, and my thoughts escape to my former elementary school classmates with whom I often played
Flowers, girls or boys. How many children have heard of this game now? I don't know how to answer, but the lyrics sneak into my soul and trouble me again:
mais dans sa vie il y avait / le merveilleux champ des roses. Clichés that I didn't think about imprint on my retina, and they look for me. It snows with questions in this
game-like life.
(Translated by Diana Pașcanu / 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. 
