Yes, that's it. My late mother always told me I had a nasty mouth. That's how it was when I put a message written in the mailbox of the girl I loved as a student. I had asked her to marry me and she refused, telling me that it was too early and that she had to take care of her old and sick mother. I wrote in that note that her life will be given only to her mother and I will not have a place in her soul. Thirty years have passed and she still takes care of her mother alone, with my holograph note framed.
(Translated by Oana Georgiana Minea / 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. 
