My mother had no pain during my birth. I came out so easily. She kissed my forehead and wrapped me in a diaper she got from grandma. She put me on her left breast and we both fell asleep. Since then I sleep on my right side so I don't forget her heartbeat. She taught me to bake bread from the age of 5 and we opened a small bakery. In the evening we eat bread with milk. Ana whispered the story in her mind when the policeman asked her why she stole the bread. She was born an orphan and did not know who her mother was.
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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. 
