In the
forest-city, in a gray building, the hunter snores with his belly up, in a room with drawn curtains. The wind is tickling his mustache, and sometimes, brings him a fine deer scent. But he's too lazy to wake up. Additionally, his rifle, once full of bullets, rusts in a corner, serving as a hanger for his Rubensian wife's kitchen apron. The Little Red Riding Hood is dancing in the clubs, with young, lively wolves, while her grandma's teeth are shaking in the glass of blue liquid on the nightstand.
(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. 
