Miss Universe pageant, year 3050. Talent test. The representative of Romania, dressed in folk costume, reads a letter that is over 1000 years old. I am writing to let you know that everything is as it is when you leave, the outlaw chases you into the woods, his chimera groans with pistols, the barges go up the mountain, the kiss blows softly and the whistle sings doines of longing, the streams sigh, the cows drink water, the women cry and the kids behave next to the fireplace, and you, Romanians, wherever you are, never forget that this is your home.
(Translated by Emilia-Georgiana Călinescu / 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. 
