Dear diary, mommy has been fighting with granny all day. Granny is my dad's mom. Mommy has been telling granny all day that she's a nightmarish mother-in-law, that granny has to criticize her every step. When mommy went to the kitchen to make pork collar and fries for daddy, she told granny:
do I have to bump into you even here? When she went to the bathroom, it was all the same. Do I have to bump into you even here? Now it's past midnight and they keep bumping into each other. I admit, it was my mistake. I shouldn't have hung them up by the same light fixture.
(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 February 2023, the group has 10,500 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. 
