Every night she sat on her porch, looking at the sky and waiting for him to come back. But Iraq was far away and her wish didn't seem to reach it. When a grenade exploded next to him and took away his hearing, they repatriated him. He was no longer a soldier, he was a farmer, but she loved him to the moon and back. However, he felt that this life didn't suit him, so one day she found him hanging in the stables. Now she sits on her porch again, waiting for him to grow inside of her and be reborn.
(Translated by Bianca Ioana Prisecaru / 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. 
