I don't like looking in the mirror. It depresses me. What the hell can I see? This crooked nose, big as an
average-sized potato? Squinty
deep-set eyes? Big crooked ears? Hollow cheeks? Toothless mouth? No, I have no use for such images. About the body what can I say? I have a huge belly. I can never see my shoes because of it. Yesterday I went to the bathroom of a luxury restaurant. They had
floor-to-ceiling mirrors. At last, I saw it. Until now I had the impression that it was only small. Now I found out it was also blue.
(Translated by Tania Diniță / 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. 
