I don't like to wash, especially by hand, because some are made of sensitive fabric, but I can't let my clothes dirty either. I have some favorite ones and I wear them for days until they begin to stick to my skin. Sometimes I fall asleep dressed and then I don't have nightmares. I carry my father often, since he has cataracta, my mother is very dull on her chest, grandmother has faded a little, the husband is big in shoulders and the child is immaculately white. I rinse them, then catch them with hooks and let them dry. If it doesn't rain.
(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. 
