I called out, organized my rules and said I want to know how they felt. The first one, shy as a maiden, said nothing. Typical her. She's been shy ever since she was a child, used to do what others told her to do. The second was just burning to answer. When she started talking, I covered my ears. She just threw all her youthful inconveniences at my face. How right she was. I started to forget her. Luckily, we had a third one. She interrupted her suddenly, without warning, with a hysterical laugh. Oh god, did she laugh.
(Translated by Elena-Diana Cocîr / 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 November 2021, the group has 7.500 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. 
