I tried to paint myself, but the cat destroyed my canvas with its claws, I graffitied myself on a wall, but the next day the earthquake came, I described myself in a story, but no one wanted to publish me, I wrote a song about myself, but they chased me away when I sang it in the market, I drew myself with lipstick on the bathroom mirror, but it broke because of superstition, I scratched sand into the shape of my face, but the first wave swallowed me whole. It wasn't until you came into my life that I could really see myself. In your eyes.
(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. 
