She lived a beautiful life. It has come to an end. Death was always the monster under the bed. Her parents shielded her from the notion of death.Then she became a doctor and death was there, lurking. She didn't presume to test her powers against it. She just tried to comfort, to help. Now she's on her deathbed. Her children and grandchildren hover over her head.Since yesterday, old patients she couldn't do anything for have started visiting her. They smile at her, they are not upset. Life has been good, but death isn't bad either.
(Translated by Raluca Ioana Crucerescu / 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. 
