He was angry and hit the net and stone fence. First a few pebbles fell, then larger stones. Fingers came through the small crack, they caught the braid of the fence and shook it hard. As strong as a weak finger could. What are you?, the slightly frightened child asked. A large blue eye appeared in place of his fingers. It examined him carefully from top to bottom, and he felt a stone roll down his throat as well. I'm human, there was a voice from beyond. You? Also human.. Then why they keep us apart?
(Translated by Ana-Maria Mușetescu / 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. 
