I am an orphan. I grew up in an orphanage, it's true, but I have a family. I even have more. Since I discovered that room, I have never been Alone in this world. White Fang kept me warm during the cold nights, from Pauper I became Prince. At school I started to learn well and I made friends. They called us Knights of the round table. One day I raised my eyes to the sky and I saw the stars and on a corner of the moon was the Little Prince. What orphans are the poor kids who have everything but don't know how a book smells like.
(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. 
