The old lady quietly enters the hospital ward. She puts coffee in two cups. I joked saying i would marry the man who gives me coffee every day. I laughed, you brought me a bag to make sure I didn't refuse you. The same when I gave birth and when I turned 50 and when you wanted to tell me you loved me. I brought you today. To forgive me. And for goodbye. She kissed him and a grating tear ran down the man's forehead trying to kiss the sleeping thought away. She unplugged him and brought his cup to her lips.
(Translated by Andreea-Iulia Ciucă / 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. 
