I am 42 years old, a painter, married to a famous architect, in love with his brother who is 6 years younger than me, a writer who has published five books, a passionate man with whom I had some adventures in the Tuscan lands, we lived some experiences that seemed to be taken from the most beautiful novels, until one day my husband discovered our affair. We divorced. After the curtain closes, I'm just an actress, alone, with bank payments, living in a rented studio flat and memorizing stories.
(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / 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. 
