You're the infantile one, always threatening to go back to your mom. Get out yet. I'm still the audacious one? She slams the door and the breeze that makes its way inside cruelly detaches a petal of the tulip that was keeping the cold at bay in this house. She hides her eyes with her hands and begins crying again. Since when have we begun to fight like this? For at least a few months, with rest breaks before we start all over again. We've already said everything, we've been wheezing for a long time, but we're not stopping because we're afraid that only this lively quarrel keeps us together. What a cliché.
(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. 
