In the morning, I kiss everyone's foreheads. It's not fun. Shampoo hasn't been invented yet. Then i spit. For ten minutes I spit and spit. It's not fun. Handkerchiefs have not been invented yet. Then I pick herbs and kill crows. There's no rule. I pick and kill until I have enough for a soup. It's not fun. Then I heat up the water. I heat the water for long time. It's not fun. The fire has not been invented yet. Then I call everyone to dinner. They eat it raw and burp afterwards. It's not fun. I get angry and kill all, one by one. It's not fun, rifles haven't been invented yet.
(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. 
