Buckets, in place? In plaaace. Alleys, swept? Sweeept. Graves, dug? Duuug, boss. Come on, pick up the pace, people. Lady Floricica, you're the singer, you don't even need a costume. Mister Costăchiță, plié, passé, développé and arabesque. Here, up front, near the opopanax, 'cause you're the most
good-looking and your curls are to die for. In the second row, Vasilică and I - grand battement jeté. Everybody ready? DJ
Bell-Ringer, hit it. 'Cause this is thrilllllller.
(Translated by Diana Mîndruță-Tănăsescu / 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. 
