I know, that's what happens every time, because I'm just an image in the eye of the girl selling flowers. Every Monday I choose a rose, always the most beautiful one, then I put it down next to the cauldron, look for money and take a banknote out of my wallet. When I leave, I always forget the rose on the cobblestones next to the girl. On the first day she called for me, I smiled and went forward. The other days she didn't call for me, just smiled. I am an image in the eye of the girl that shares smiles. When she wakes up, I'll disappear.
(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. 
