I wanted only one of them, but how do I choose between the two pairs of brown eyes? They always held hands and said they were siblings and got lost from their parents and one day they'd hold them tight. They ate a biscuit together and pocketed the bread from the table. It was getting stale, but they still kept it. They sometimes slept with the bread under their pillow. They dipped the hard pieces in their morning tea and hid the fresh ones after a long sniff. That day. When I brought them home, they gave me the slices of bread. They were starving for love.
(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. 
