I love the Greek sun, thunderstorm clouds and coffee on the terrace, I write friendly texts and fish for compliments, I like people and people like me, I am glad that Secret Santa gave me a pair of fingerless gloves, I still fit into the red New Year's dress, I am beautiful and overdo the diva attitude, I smile happily in a photo from last Easter, I hug my dog that didn't die on a Friday. Log out. Alone. Darkness. I hate myself with a pink pill that hurts my palm.
(Translated by Bianca-Andreea Rîmboacă / 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. 
