I didn't tell anyone about them until now. Not that I would be ashamed, on contrary, my heart was filled with pride that they are mine. They are quite many, but it is what it is, and I'm a Moldavian woman. I have 1600 brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, cousins, and nieces, in total. I'm
ignoring some of them and they do the same with me, but others are the salt of the Earth, but they don't have to know it. Even a few days ago, I found a new sister. She knows who she is, I'm not mentioning her name. You'll say I'm stoned but my friends are all I have.
(Translated by Maria Cătălina Moisescu / 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. 
