cried Prince Charming cheerfully: kindness, honor, straight fight. See, master, that's why you don't eat embers, but poppies still milk, that's why you don't trust that you can, first you send your brothers, only in the end it gives you a chance, that's why you will choose a childish princess who sings to be saved, instead of cutting her off from the tower, while the Kite has three other rules, a mace that flies straight ahead, a golden castle and a damn girl three times over her head and you lie alone on her bread with butter.
(Translated by Bianca Dumitru / 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. 
