How you doing, neighbor? All alone, like that, without any child with you? Where did you left him? Yours are grown now, right? And won't you make another one? That's it? You can't do it anymore, can you? I believe you. But, still, you were the ones who wanted four kids. Me, with only one, I have no business. He is good by himself, goes alone to school, to activities. Stays alone until we get home, cooks for himself. Other life. You still have some time until this happens, I guess. Do you also work or do you stay at home? Independent actress? It's ok, darling, the most important thing is for us to be healthy.
(Translated by Andreea Denisa Dinu / 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. 
