Childhood is the time of all possibilities. It's like a sprouted seed. See the roots, see the leaves, but you still don't know if a beautiful poppy, a weed, or an oak will grow. I've heard that the Japanese choose their children's names based on what their parents love. There is a towering tree to choose from because it is as strong as its mother wants and a tree because my father loves nature. Is the choice of the child's name in the power of the parents or does the destiny of the future person attract the name that will accompany him through life?
(Translated by Georgiana Carmen Rădulescu / 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. 
