My mother and my four brothers are living in a neighboring village to my grandparents. She has blue eyes, a breathtaking beauty, they are playful like all the boys are, grandpa saw the fairies once, grandma makes bread of hearth and from time to time she falls into deep thought. I also have a cousin, an uncle, and an aunt. My cousin is a diligent student, my uncle works the entire day and my aunt makes some finger-licking good pies. On Christmas when they all meet, they think about me. I never met them.
(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. 
