Nice ass you have here, girl, she heard someone saying when she bent down over the basket. It was Easter night. She was 12. She was overwhelmed with confusion and shame. Then, her classmates' looks started bothering her. She wanted to wear noteless clothes. To be invisible. The memory got lost in the fog, but the aversion towards the strong sex didn't. She felt painstakingly lonely, but she could not bear bringing an end to it. Your daughter suffers from a deficiency of serotonin, probably genetic, said his mother's psychiatrist after many years. I'll have her take antidepressants.
(Translated by Lucia-Alexandra Brînaru-Mitrofan / 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. 
