The first hug was given to me by a child from the orphanage to steal the last money from my pocket. The first boy didn't give me butterflies in my stomach, but punches. I dedicated the first March 8 card to the only supervisor who ever smiled at me. I don't know why you left or where you went or how you are or if you are still alive. I don't know if I upset you with anything, but in my paintings you always have a smile on your face. Know that I forgave you. I haven't seen you in ten years. Next is the eleventh.
(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. 
