Tiffany was 3 years old and knew exactly what she wanted. She was carrying a doll with messy hair and a dirty dress. Neither of them spoke, but both were polite. Tiff wasn't interested in anything else, she just wanted to take care of that tangled pile of plastic hair. Tiffany is now 20 years old and knows exactly what she wants. She carries the same doll. She sings to her, caresses her, kisses her. Neither speaks, but both are well-behaved. When they took the doll away from her, she screamed for days. Tiff doesn't cry no more. She swings herself and hits her head lightly against the bars.
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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. 
