He had always impregnated letters in the palms of his hands and danced them on the lovely skin of the loved ones. Later, he caressed them on the cheeks of children and grandchildren, and today he wrote them again on the little letters hidden in the muffins. He loved to gather his whole family at the feast table and see them happy. For dessert, everyone ate their dedicated cake and bragged about the message found. And she smiled secretly, knowing that all her fingers had the same words of her heart: you are love, be happy.
(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. 
