When I told you not to hang out with that guy cause his sister's already with your brother, you didn't listen. When his mother gave you hell for living in sin, you got angry. When I advised you not to say yes to the first one just to forget the other, you didn't even want to hear it. When you disappeared on your wedding night with the first one, and your mother-in-law told us to look for you among the weeds, you didn't care. Now you come to tell me you are being laid into. Who's gonna want you with one kid in your arms and another on the way? Go back to your man, I can't help you.
(Translated by Ana-Maria Batog / 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. 
