Dear Diary, tonight we had macaroni and cheese for dinner. Mother Lucia also made us apple pie. You know that's my favorite. She put whipped cream on top to make it look like a cake. Mama Alina made it beautiful in the big room, with balloons of all colors. She said it was a party for Ana. I wasn't too happy. I found out Ana was leaving tomorrow. She's going to her house. She'll have her parents. If it's true that all children have parents, that means I'll have parents, right? Tell me. Is it true?
(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. 
