She was crocheting woolen socks for her grandchildren, grumbling and sneaking glances at what was going on in the neighboring yard. A fence of
half-rotten stakes stood between her and her mortal enemy. She had stolen Culiță in the garden behind the middle school. What white hair she has. And she'd let it, loose, on her back. What in God's name did he see in her? She's all yellow and hunched. She was once a sight for sore eyes. They were classmates. Ugh. I did all her homework in junior high. A beautiful fool. Her, her. Couldn't pronounce her name. The Yellowed.
(Translated by
Andreea Grințescu / 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. 
