Man, what's the point with having so many children? That's the most heartbreaking line I've ever heard, and it wasn't even meant for me. Probably a rhetorical question. According to current social preconceptions, I shouldn't have children because I can't afford to raise them. Maybe only one, but not that many. Too many. Many times I've heard my numerous children make my life so complicated. Well, take a look at them carefully and please, tell me, which one of them is for you a pain in the neck?
(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. 
