She was born with trisomy 21. Only her grandma loved and cared for care. Now she had cancer and had to find a peaceful place for the girl. But when she left her in the sanatorium, the girl started banging with her fists on the walls until they bled. There was so much sorrow in her, that the hands of people touching her would weep. Granny, if we both take the pills for your disease, then can't we stay together?. They laid down on the bed, both kissed by the weeping and starless moon. From the window came a premonitory chorus. Let us never, never forget the ones sadder than us.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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 June 2023, the group has 11,430 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. 
