Either it has come or passed the 2,560
th day since I tried to potty train my kid. I've read the book with the teddy bear and the good renunciation of diapers 530 times. I have explained the functioning of the digestive system 1,234 times. I heard a hundred or so versions of the story in which Pee, Poo and their friend, Part the Fart, discovered the world together. The child is a literary genius, but the pot remains empty, like my lost gaze. Dear Hope, your hearse is called a potty. Come on, Daddy, we started yesterday. Have some courage.
(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 May 2022, the group has 8,350 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. 
