A blue planet. One so beautiful that you could easily look at the Sun, but not at this planet. Unfortunately, there were indwelling some annoying creatures who ruined everything in their way. Some giants who were continuously croaking while walking on two stilts. But grandpa, with two stilts, they must have been so ugly, said little Radu. Măriuca is looking scared but also curious of what is going to happen next. But the grandpa, with his two grandchildren in his hugging, was already sleeping like a log that it seemed his peplomers glycoprotein were trembling from all the snoring.
(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. 
