My mother begs me to go and see the sea for the last time, my father wants me to drink the last beer with him, my brother whispers in my ear that he can bring me a cool girl to deflower me, my grandfather wants me to pull his pipe, my grandmother weaves some boots, uncle Vasile wants to let me drive his Porsche for about 10 kilometers, my friend wants to give me his leather bracelet, the nurse wants to put morphine in my vein, I want them to get the hell out from the living room and leave me alone to die.
(Translated by Laura-Elena Dobrin / 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 June 2022, the group has 8,500 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. 
