I prefer to be a man, 195 cm, 75 kg, highborn, so that I don't tire myself out working,
dark-haired, blue-eyed, a pilot and parachutist, just for fun, because it makes me look cool in front of the chicks, a talented painter, too bad I'm indolent, with a passionate rocker's voice, a sculptor's hands, and flamenco dancer's feet, a sharp mind, great wordsmith and manipulator of emotions. What do you mean not possible? Is the comrade ahead? Well, he's a smartass and
well-positioned. I' m left with impossible choices again. Woman, children, home and be home early, neither tall nor beautiful.
(Translated by Cosmina-Florentina Ciobanu / 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. 
