August 2011. Monday. 9 am. His heart is racing. The scream is piercing the silence in a bazillion pieces. He embraces the little baby with rosy cheeks and washes his own with the cry of joy. Doru is shaking. He's smiling, pretending to be in control. Welcome, Ra. And then the seconds go by quickly. December 2010. Monday, 9 am. The silence shatters the time in a bazillion of pieces. He's squeezing the piece of crying soaked paper between his palms. Doru was staring idly, mimicking his self-control. Farewell, Ra. The powerlessness smirks while lightning a cigarette.
(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. 
