Who do you love more, Mommy or Daddy? The child didn't understand. Where do you love more, the city or the country? The schoolboy didn't answer. Who do you want to live with, your parents or your in-laws? The young man was getting older. Which child do you like better, the girl or the boy? The mature man frowned. Where is your bed warmer, at your wife's or your mistress'? The adulterer's head was turning. Where do you want to go, heaven or hell? The addict no longer cared. He'd always had a choice at home between the two of them. All he knew was that he had always loved.
(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. 
