Secret, secret yeah I get it. What, wasn't I aware that Mother has socks like Santa's? And when I asked my father if Saint Nicholas has some, he said yes, he goes to the North Pole to check the letters for Santa and they buy socks together. Ah. So Mother is lying about going to the convent. She goes to the North Pole, meets the Santas and buys socks. As a child I laughed in vain, I understand. And it's normal, Mother is a nun, the Santas are also with God, they are members of the same club.
(Translated by Andreea-Alexandra Șerbănescu / 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. 
