He was right there in the secret album, sitting in odd positions. As a lonely baby in a double trolley, holding toys in his arms next to another set of identical toys, with a prize crown on his head and another in his hand. Tens of black and white photos next to other identical ones on which colorful flowers were drawn. Mother disclosed how he had been born with a twin brother and how both of them had fought the dragon, much like the Saint of their birthday had. He had won and is now loved twice as much, and dear Geluțu had pansies planted in his soul and photos.
(Translated by Marta Fulga / 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. 
