He has black eyes and a mellow voice: we have this stretch of road because of you, my love. You've put these gray tiles when you cleaned your brother's home for him, when the sister-in-law was away. You lied to cover the selfishness of your own children or their lack of responsibility, you've put some more tiles. When you told cousin Luiza that if she keeps gaining weight, she'll f#ck up her marriage (destroy/ruin), you've paved another square meter. Mmhm, exactly! That saying about the road to hell and the good intentions is true. Here, have a pain-filled cookie, it's freshly baked.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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. 
