Week 36. Today I had my doctor's appointment. Everything is ok with both of us, baby. I was just leaving the doctor's office when the sirens started blaring. I had a hard time getting home, but luckily we live
close-by. The fuss agitated you and you started kicking your little feet like never before. I played Norwegian Wood and you stilled when I pressed the phone to my belly. I decided: the next day I would give back their deposit. It's a good thing I did not spend even a single euro from it. You are going to be only mine. I will name you Beatles. Beatles Timoșciuk, we will emigrate together to Norway.
(Translated by Diana Pașcanu / 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. 
