He stopped his soldiers at Cotul Donului and was the first one to step on the landmine. She was waiting for him with a baby girl at the riverbed, after this she was named the Fatherless, although she could see a name on a cross for the heroes resting in peace. He gifted me a marvellous eyesight which could see deep into the sea, through the giant squids and hidden treasures. She invented, at my birth, the Sun and copied on my heart the formula for light. Me with them, them with me, what a tangled story of a past without me and a future without them. I am what we are.
(Translated by Beatrice-Ioana Huruială / 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. 
