I would have wanted him Capricorn, a dreamer, I would have wanted him Cancer, ambitious, I would have wanted him in any way, even though I carried him through all the signs, he only breathed the mold of my forgotten womb, once and again and always, with a hunger for the light, with a gasp for love, I bit of the bleeding knees, and my hands froze when I caressed you and called you and sang to you to follow my voice to hear me and stay with me, your mother, who is still waiting for you, my child, my forever love.
(Translated by Denisa Stanciu / 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. 
