I finally got up the courage. Since high school I've been suffering. What did it matter to me that my mother and Radu said it wasn't the outside that mattered. That to the attic and to the heart is the key. As if Horatio cared how many feet a second my heart gallops when I see him. Decision made. In the renowned plastic surgeon's office I chose my largest size, my melons, to be my trailblazers. When I awoke from the anesthetic, I was greeted by breasts as large as well-grown kiwis. They were supposed to harmonize with everything. So I matched the payment.
(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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. 
