I sleep all day with the curtains closed, immersed in a soft grey bubble. From time to time, I get a flip. Then I get up, scream, trot, act like an imp and when I realize that I annoyed everyone, I lie back nicely. I was born to a Brazilian mother and a father from Chitila, who was a grill manufacturer. That's how the boss is, when he feels like it, he can't get it out of his head, for example, this one with the beef steak that isn't good on the wood grill. This is who I am - a dwarf in the brain. A deeply rooted one.
(Translated by Roberta Ana-Maria Gulerez / 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. 
