In his childlike mind, the arguments that he was never a participant of, but that he overheard almost every evening, had no explanation whatsoever. The explanation came a bit later, although, even if he was a little older, it didn't make much of a difference. Was he unhappy, angry, disappointed, or all at the same time? He couldn't choose. The same can be said for when he wasn't able to choose whether to stay with his mom or move in with his dad. Eventually, he had to make up his mind, so he chose to stay with his grandparents. At least they never fought.
(Translated by Adelina-Maria Mănăilescu / 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. 
