You have to choose. You're no longer a teenager. Decide which path do you want to follow. You, girl, until when will you chase for butterflies? Until when will you compete in voice with the birds? You know that people are talking about how you're running with the village children through the meadow, and how you always bring flower arms home? Nana, you have to make up your mind on which path to go. People are mean and they keep talking. Hmmm. All of this reaped through me as the wind reaped through the wheat field. Today I put on my dearest dress, got up on the church steeple and decided to fly.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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. 
