She had given birth in terrible agony, in the flickering of candles, in a damp basement. Huddled under the cotton blanket, she managed to caress the forehead of the first one, but the second one was taken from her and she did not see his face. When things had settled down a little, she tried to find them, but she always ran into bored officials. She died, still young, in the wilderness of a monastery, without ever knowing them. For the boys, however, that first bath brought them luck. Life had arranged it in such a way that the one from the Federal Republic of Germany found his twin. A Wall had separated them.
(Translated by Andreea Teodorescu-Colciu / 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. 
