The beech floor put 20 years ago laments under it my inability to get out of this wheelchair. I was on my third attempt today. I had dropped my phone under the bed. I can hear my joints cracking under the weight of my body. I had become a helpless obese man and death seemed the only viable solution. I have the seed drawer handy. My fat-clad heart no longer has the strength to shout no to me. My brain punishes me. Eat, eat, eat, you fat fucker. Okay. That's the last one. There's one more day tomorrow.
(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / 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. 
