10 little fingers. 2 little eyes. A round, little head. 2,859 diapers. 1,976 sneezes. 783 out loud cries, just when I thought you were asleep. 323 bruises on the knees. 379 screams with big eyes, for fear of mashed peas. 3,560 good night hugs. 9,999 kisses. 5,373 I love you, Mommy. You are now 22 years old and you look at me with hatred. Stop laughing, stop talking to me. I haven't seen you in 10 years. But I'm waiting for you. Maybe I'm lucky enough to let me love you again. Mom is waiting for you.
(Translated by Ana-Maria Mușetescu / 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 April 2022, the group has 8,175 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. 
