I was young, saw myself as a deity, a know-it-all, and used to get pampered from flower to flower. Until I met her. We loved each other, and we matured together until I married her. We had a child but she found another Adonis. And she was gone. Abandoned, I idealized again the romance in Mambo No5. Sometimes with Ana, then with Ina, then with Ela, and sometimes with Nina. Until I met her. And it ended with a marriage. Today I'm a father-in-law. In the lobby, in a tuxedo, I can't take my eyes off my daughter. Who's at the door? A girl with a forget-me-not in her hair. She said she is my big sister.
(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. 
