She passed daily on the street with linden trees. At the end of it, before she had to make a sharp turn, her gaze would meet the immaculate white wall for a few moments. A month ago, the messy writing, scrawled in pitch-black spray paint, caught her eye. The intimate feeling of blankness was gone. I miss you, Ana. What an idiot, he couldn't text her? The next day, she froze: in small letters, perfectly aligned, written in a red marker, Ana replied: I DON'T. Ana, I know you're lying. I'M NOT. Every day, it created a new wound on her retina. Anaaaa, move out of the neighbourhood and tell the artist I'm going to whitewash the wall.
(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. 
