Sunny days are the most depressing ones. I hate them like I hate beer. They're both bitter. Dad, if one day you'll want to look for me and get to know me, open the window first and check the weather. You should only come when it's cloudy. That way I'll be able to forgive you more easily. And maybe I'll feel like sharing with you the last bottle of sour cherry liqueur that mom made. Dad, there'll be a dog waiting for you at the gate. Don't be afraid. Pet him gently. Tell him who you are. He'll faithfully lead you to where I am. Dad, I'll be waiting for you.
(Translated by Cristina-Bianca Ion / 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. 
