'Aight sir, all right, I admit it. It's been ages since I were a white dove. I mean, I'm white, but I'm not a dove. Not as tall as I looked in my old profile picture. I don't have big breasts either, as you might have thought when I told you how I cured a guy one night just by touching him a little with my anatomy. Bloody woman. That's what my man would have said if he'd lived. Mother dear, says my daughter. How good that you are, say some and others. Shut up and don't show off, they all say. Don't go, says Ada, so I'll stay as I am.
(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. 
