I usually go into the hall full of mirrors every day. I see myself as a child, as a teenager and as a grown woman with a ripe soul. We talked about ourselves. Last evening the child told me how she trembled under the duvet when my father screamed too loudly at my mother, the teenager argued with herself for not being able to find her wings hidden in fear, the mature woman kept trying to convince me that life is beautiful. It's 8 o'clock, the nurse gives me the regular pill, I close my eyes and I go back to the hall full of mirrors. A child waits for me to give me lollipop.
(Translated by Ioana Negrea / 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. 
