A piece of news about the discovery of an African tribe in which white children were born was broadcast on TV, although the locals had no contact with the civilized world. The old man began to write: The undersigned Captain Iftimie Ailenei, I was sent on a mission to Africain 1986, after crocodile boots for my companion. I didn't hunt any crocodiles, but I was caught by the natives. It was hard. The Molobongs wouldn't let me sleep at night. Luckily, after a year, they released me in exchange for a rocket launcher.
(Translated by Roberta Ana-Maria Gulerez / 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. 
