She is kind and never sticks her nose in nobody's business. She always shyly smiles. She takes everything as it is. Lots of doctors look for her. She receives all diagnostics, all wrong. Everyone shallowly believes they know it all. She patiently waits. She takes lots of medications for the side effects. She'll always be a patient. She puts on a smile of a saint. During the checkup yesterday, my whole world died. And this criminal hospital disappeared. In the morning, the room was empty. In the light of dawn, she was sitting on God's shoulder.
(Translated by Luciana-Maria Buruiană / 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. 
