Dear, Maria, I'm writing this letter in the hope that you'll be able to forgive me. We've been together for a very long time. We've gone through a lot. The past 6 years have been filled with magic: the night we met, the moment your heart skipped a beat for the first time when I entered your room. We spent wonderful nights together, but now it's time we broke up. It's not your fault, it's only mine. I met somebody else. Please don't write to me and don't look for me. I will always remember those beautiful moments we spent together. Goodbye. With love, Bogeyman.
(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. 
