Sometimes I feel mature, sometimes, a crazy child. Sometimes I'm beautiful, sometimes downright hideous. I'm smart, but I'm also really stupid. My eye color is uncertain, my personality unclear. Sometimes I weep loudly, sometimes tearfully. Sometimes I speak without saying anything, sometimes I keep quiet and say everything. I'm a good woman, too bad I'm actually bad. Sometimes I am emotion, sometimes I am like stone. Sometimes I'm courage, sometimes just fear. I have no idea who I am in this world. When you hold me in your arms, I know. I am love.
(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. 
