He is 14 years old and very much in love. She is 14 and has very big and very green eyes. He is small and ugly and doesn't know how to conquer her. She is his classmate and likes to fly. Between a flutter of wings, he asks her out on a date. Today, on her birthday, they meet in the park, out of the way, he picks a leaf from the tree, hides it in his pocket, then hands it to her. Happy birthday, my dear, here, for your birthday, a patch of sky, just for you and your flights. He knew she is colour blind.
(Translated by Cristina-Nicoleta Costache (Mircea) / 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. 
