It is true that, on the evening of October 4th to 5th, you sent the minor known as Red Little Riding Hood to entrust supplies consisting of basic food and products of strict necessity to the retired citizen named Grandma, also known as The Grand Madame, Granny A, Iliescu Ion, having a preceding criminal record of committing the crime of forgery and use of forgery of identity, as well as abusive occupancy of a small area of land in the forest? Yes, replied the wolf, busily.
(Translated by Marius-Alin Lazăr / 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 October 2021, the group has 7.275 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale.