My mom-in-law came with problems, sure enough, and yet, when she was alive, she trusted her boy and always supported him. Even during our wedding-night, I heard her: come on, Ion, don't give up. But it is obvious that, after she died, something else died in Ion as well, since poor guy couldn't perform anymore. That's why, the day I caught him breeches down behind neighbour Florica, who had her petticoat up her head, and in the middle of all that hay, leaned on the pitchfork, my heart swelled up with happiness, no joke. It's amazing, Ion! I yelled. Don't give up! See? You can do it. And I was so proud of him.
(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. 
