Hey, grandpa, do you like our new home? Well, unlike that matchbox, how could I not? But I liked this place better before. Here, in this place, lay a forest as far as you could see. When we were kids, we used to come here and play. I also used to bring your grandma here, when I was a young lad. And God, it was such a pleasure to see a wondering hind. Foxes and hedgehogs too. So melodious were the birds singing. And then, it came to an end. They slashed it with a road, hacked the trees and built a new neighbourhood. But, of course, I like your new home.
(Translated by Cristina-Bianca Ion / 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. 
