The important events in her life happened every 13 years. She was 13 when she became a woman and she knew the pain. At 26, she got married. She only became a mother at the age of 39. At 52, God forgave her (meaning she began menopause) but she broke up with her man. At the age of 65, she retired and gathered the courage to start writing. At 78, her first grandchild was born. At the age of 91, the man she loved all her life died. And now? She waits, curious to see what luck awaits her in 13 years.
(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. 
