Dead mom, olympic alcoholic dad and a younger brother to take care of. With nothing. I'm trying my hardest to pass every class, although you'd rather say the school is pulling me to keep me from dropping it. Uhhh, what are you eating there, you dirty, I can hear daddy's head money girl shouting from the last bench. I imagine her wrinkling her fine nose and saying, romanian kiwi, peeling the boiled potato on the side. I stand up sweating to my feet. I shout to Alexa to turn on my light and say once more in my mind, don't forget where you came from.
(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. 
