and firstly, I thought it was a bad joke over the phone, but the tremor of his voice made me emotional, and I kept listening.
I know I have shocked you, but I promised myself that if I was going to make it, I would tell you that I've always loved you, ever since highschool and there was not even a single day when I stopped thinking about you, and during these those seven months I was bedridden, this wish to confess to you fueled my will to walk again, brought me back to life. I thank you for listening to me. And he hanged up.
(Translated by Raluca Simion / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by prof. Nadina Vișan / Edited 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. 
