It's another Norma Jeane of the times when everyone has already forgotten the memorable Marilyn. She smiles aphasically, agnostically, dizzily, often forgets, but everyone looks at her with fascination hidden next to contempt and prejudice. What she does, what she believes, what she is, is art, but she doubtfully scolds opinions that are not like her soul, only her face. She lives noisily, paints badly, succinctly describes herself as too much, and only exhales regrets when she inspires controversy. She has no faults that are not her qualities, as she (they) would say. Her mirror is broken.
(Translated by Lorina Xiaoyu Hou / 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. 
