Ant Ilie rummaged through the crumbs under the table and finally found what he was looking for, a giant grain of sugar. He put the grain on his back and instantly felt his bones ache, so he set it back down. He scratched the back of his neck while jealously watching his busy siblings. Finally, he decided to push the grain towards the table leg and drag it through the splattered grape seeds. Satisfied, he set it under the ray of light peeking through the curtain. He could already smell the stench of organic waste.
(Translated by Bianca-Maria Ciucașu / 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. 
