A princess who was on edge because of the strong headedness and the incompetence of the
so-called saviours, decided to save herself. How may you ask? Washing away the siphon floor drainer in the bathroom by herself, changing the hinges, assembling the mosquito nets, and also fixing the flat tyre. The supreme test was given by the electric panel which let her one day in pitch black. With a chair, a flashlight and two skillful hands which turned the electrical panel fuses, she succeeded in having light again. Just God had done this before. Proud of herself, she called her mother: You know why I don't have a man? Because I don't need one.
(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. 
