She couldn't leave me alone even then. She accompanied me without being asked, because she kept reminding me that she was me and vice versa. And I saw her fight with God in a crusade that put to shame legions of archangels who wondered how so much courage and dedication could come from a man, an element inferior to them. She proved to the accusing saints, with fierceness, that the Decalogue is not perfect by carving yet another commandment. You are born and die next to your brother, even if you are of a different blood.
(Translated by Anca Maria Florea / 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. 
