If you ask my mother I was always an obedient and very shy child. I always tried to go unnoticed in the real world far too preoccupied with the imaginary world in my head. If you ask my dad, math makes sense, not the philosophical nonSENSE I tend towards (pun intended). If you talk to my grandmother, I'm incomplete because I don't have a husband and at least one child there, in short, I'm not settled down. And if you ask me I'm a stray idea in a sleepy head. But best not to ask.
(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. 
