I've known his song for XX years. I care for it every day in my mind, like it's a flower. My acquaintances say that I do well with the plants and when they leave home they entrust me to water them. I'm going to grow up, but I don't know when. Until then, I'm looking for a boy who wants to run with me to the woods and hug trees together. Once, I truly found him, but when I showed this song to him, he said I was a little too weird. Like a thorn, like a thistle. You're hopeless, boy. Maybe he didn't like the music video.
(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. 
