I tried to get up; I fell back on my knees. The blood was streaming down my face. Give me 5 more lei, I heard the boy alongside me. I turned towards him. I could barely see him because of the blood, but something else caught my attention: his voice. And suddenly her image came into my mind, the one I had lost 12 years ago in that stupid accident, when she was carrying my baby. It was only then the tears came, mixed with blood. I searched my pockets and I handed him a 10 lei bill. Let's go home, dad, he said.
(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. 
