I was born at dawn. Who are these people? I cry. Preventive/Just in case. For the rest of the morning I was a kid. I marvelled at everything, I lived among the stories. At noon I lived my adolescence. Horrible. Even now I'm trying to tell myself that the acne was caused by the things I ate. Then I woke up being a mature man, job, house, wife, children, match, politics, belly/tummy, tomorrow I get rid of it, and an end to baldness. In the evening I was already unsure of my movements. As night approached, I laid down in bed. I pressed the
love and
share buttons for my own funeral.
(Translated by Diana Stănescu / 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. 
