Since she lived from her memories, her life was a seedy diary on which she wrote the Woman's Almanac 1982. Recipes for cake and pickles, lists, shopping lists, car payments, loans, expenses, addresses, everything was a mess of thoughts and facts. Aunty what's this: Leo 1, Romeo 0, Cary 11, Lucky 13? They are my lovers, dear. Leo was the first, Romeo never was, I adored Grant in all his movies, and the last one was bad luck. His name was Lache and we were married for 13 years. He drained life out of me.
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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. 
