Sile aka Hamlet had been a gravedigger at the Resurrection Cemetery for 25 years, he made a living out of death and he liked living. If you listened to him talk, you learned a lot. One time, some guy had asked him to dig a grave, told him to wait for him to come get the bones of the deceased to make room for another, but the guy never came. Sile was a
God-fearing man, how could he possibly leave Christian bones to the dogs? He put them all in a raffia bag, but the skull didn't fit. He went to the guy's house, bag in hand, and yelled: Are you coming or not?
(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. 
