I'm getting out of the car. Grandma's house seems to have been shrunken in these 10 years, along with that little woman with the headscarf. Oh, my dear, come and give me a hug. It smells of garlic and beef. She sees me that I am lonely. Come child, that cow has raised you and your sister. She hugs me with surprising strength and tears in her eyes. She strokes my clothes, my face, my hair. My dear child. With tears in my eyes, I kissed her hand. I was busy with school, then work. The years passed quickly. She sighs. For you, darling.
(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. 
