I sent my love to Gigi at four, because he was a cute boy, with one eye brown and the other blue, asymmetry, as I like it. I took her up in the elevator and told her clearly, get off at four and shout loudly Gigi, you have great eyes. In the evening, when I open the door to smell what the neighbour has cooked, because in the evenings I only eat smells, I wake up to huge bouquets of flowers and candy bombarding me. Love, weary, I forget, and I shout to every floor, the girl on one loves you. It's no big deal, right?
(Translated by Bianca-Maria Marinescu / 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. 
