It's actually nice, being dead, I can reflect on my naivety, rooted in the infantilism specific to girls who see themselves as princesses; on the conflict with the mean mother, which will impact the relationship with future children; on the archetype of living happily ever after without lifting a finger. And here comes this guy. With hands full of blood from hunting, he smears the crystal glass, stains my dress, and is a necrophile to boot. The repulsion is enough to get the apple out of her throat and Snow White becomes someone else entirely.
(Translated by Ioana Diana Sandu / 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 December 2021, the group has 7.750 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. 
