This is the first time this is happening to me, sir doctor. I woke up this morning with my head exploded. It took me a few hours to clean the walls from blood and lobes, until I lost my appetite. After that I had to follow the butterflies and bees that escaped my stomach. I even got ticklish in my soles since with every step I started laughing and leaping. Towards the afternoon, when I was finally feeling a little bit better, he calls me and ask me if I thought about him. With what, sir doctor, if my head went boom?
(Translated by Jessica-Polixenia-Cristiana Copilaș / 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. 
