One holiday, at my grandparents', a guy comes to take me dancing. Just a moment, to get the cow in, I say, right as I see Rujana on her way, looking at me with a disgusted look, then, through the neighbouring fence, leaping towards the clover field. After an hour, hugged tightly in battle, we enter the stable with dignity, and I lie down firmly beneath the cow's tail, slipping on something raw and warm. A moment and I'm ready, I try to tell the boy. Another time, he bursts out and leaps, like an idiot, through the gate. From behind, I shout: can I go and fix the fence then?
(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. 
