She had been living for 7 years in an orphanage grey, dirty and dangerous like a rat's back. Into her grey world arose a woman of warm light, teaching her about
cherry-red, orange-apricot, yellow-sunflower, green-mint. She waited for her daily, as Noah waited for the rainbow. Then the lady gave her a blue dress, just like the one she had worn the first day they met. From today we can dress the same, if you like. From today I can be your mother, if you want. And that's how she found out what colour hope is.
(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. 
