The chidren laughed at my classmate for coming at school with the same blue blouse and dull shoes. That instead of a backpack he brought his books in a bag and that he didn't have a phone. It didn't bother me at all. I liked his blue eyes and his smart mind. One day, he asked for permission to accompany me home. When we stopped in front of the dilapidated gate and the house with fallen plaster, he was amazed. I was ashamed to tell him that in fact, I live in a big house, that my mother is a doctor and my father is a lawyer.
(Translated by Iuliana Mocanu / 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 July 2022, the group has 8,750 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. 
