I made up my mind. I want to be famous. My voice needs to write on the hearts of those who listen to me. Let its tones be shades of love. My childhood began with fame, an act of magic. I wrote my parents my first absence, just days after they brought me home, disappearing under the bed in a masterfully executed screw. It was the first victory of an angel come among men. The whole family was looking for me, a little more and I'd have made it to the local gazette, if Grandpa with his heartbeat hadn't discovered me.
(Translated by Andreea Tobă / 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. 
