I had enough of them in my life. In high school dad would give me some. Black, with a broken rib, he would get another new one. Then all of the others that I had, I lost them. In the tram, in the bus, at the railway. I got one in Chișinău, a german one by the writing. Lost in the subway. I had a purple one borrowed from my wife. I think the mistress has it. Now I have one that I cherish terribly from the girl on her visit. This is my best one, she always buys quality things. And I say, you re-read this story between the lines. And beware of rains.
(Translated by Jessica-Polixenia-Cristiana Copilaș / 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 May 2023, the group has 11,260 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. 
