I love you, I love you, all day long I only heard "I love you", until I started to love him too. Well, it's been nice so far, you know that sense of floating, when you believe anything, you're happy when you get the smallest sign, you really start to believe that life is worth living. Then, I less and less heard that "I love you", which I became addicted to, until one day I no longer heard it, except within myself. It was too late to rewind, so I suffered like all the unloved people who turn to writing as therapy.
(Translated by Ecaterina Bucovanu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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 March 2023, the group has 10,790 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, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
