Dear mum, I want to let you know that I am in good health. It's ok here, at Nelu's. It's warm; I have a roof over my head and food on the table, but I am kind of bored. When I first came, his son, Matei, was there, but he left the following day with his mother and with 2 suitcases. The adults yelled so loudly that they scared even me. I could not get into his backpack and go with him. Now I am all by myself every day, because Nelu is either at work or at the barrelhouse. I no longer stay under the bed because it's dusty down there and it makes me sneeze. Mummy, do you think I could come home and look for another child?
(Translated by Valentina Mihai / 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. 
