He had a heart of gold. In fact, he had a heart for every situation: a pink heart for happiness, a blue heart for sadness, a black heart for the occasion, a child's white heart, a green heart for travel, a yellow heart for cloudy days, a frozen heart which he'd never used before. Now, he stood unarmed in front of her, ardently searching for his red heart. He hadn't needed it in a while. Seeing his hopelessness, she took it out of her pocket and handed it to him: sorry, I took off with it.
(Translated by Carla Bețianu / 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. 
