The human baby pushed his bangs aside so he could take a closer look. He didn't understand the question. How do you mean at mommy's or daddy's? He couldn't even imagine the world without both, hand in hand. I want to go home with mom and dad too, he said bluntly, with wet eyes. He kept his lips tight and his fists clenched. I love them the same, tell them too. I don't want two houses, don't fool me. I'm fine with our house, just the way it is. The parents were bleeding internally, but they were unmoved. How do I choose, ma'am?
(Translated by Alin-Marian Mărgescu / 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. 
