The little girl, a ball of happy energy, raced away from the table. In high speed she crossed the courtyard and like a storm entered the barn, her face still dirty with sauce. The door opened with a noisy thump and welcomed the little boy with agitated energy. They put out the treasured box which contained the seeds of truth. Speeed until the most beautiful secret place. They buried the seeds, watered them with fay water and so the flashing, colourful forest came to life. Where have you been until this hour, asked the mother? In the cherry three, said both and the forest disappeared in a moment. Poof.
(Translated by Beatrice-Ioana Huruială / 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. 
