There's no CVA and where there's no CVA it means that there is still grandma and where there is still grandma there is a child's joy inside you and where there is a child joy's there is still a smile when you feel the smell of lilies or when you wear a knitted beanie or when you receive candy in your palm or when there's someone waiting for you with food or when you get your forehead caressed or. But now there is only, boom, this sound of hammered nails, boom, which gets into your, boom, soul the same way that, boom, they enter the coffin to, boom, lock a grandma and a childhood, boom, forever. 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. 
