The little man feels unsure on his slender legs, sunken in the golden sand, scoured by blue waves which crash in thousands of white little circles. He raises his left hand, with the fingers sprawled, and touches his head. Aha, that's why the sun rays scorch him, aiming him like arrows: he has no hair. He would give anything to be able to escape the page in the drawing notebook of the child who draws hesitantly. If only he would make it thicker, the child.
(Translated by Ana-Maria Denisa Neagu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / 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. 
