Having not slept for three nights, she roamed the hospital hallways with a small pack of coffee in her pocket. She asked me for a light. Be careful not to be caught madam, you could get in trouble. She was silent for a moment, took a long puff of smoke and told me. I am invisible to the medical staff. My little girl is in the ICU and I couldn't find a single person to give me some information all of this time. I just want to know if she is alright, nothing more. And she left teary eyed and mumbling something. And they say doctors are angels.
(Translated by Ruxandra Adriana Dodoiu / 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. 
