Whoever has flowery shirts, left side path, white car, chubby wife, bifocals, grandchildren in Siberia,
one-fingered gloves,
see-through umbrella and filled teeth passes through right. Anyone with plaid shirts, path on the right, blue car, skinny wife, no glasses, no gloves, no kids, but grandkids in Machu Pichu,
plastic-handled umbrellas and buckteeth passes on the left. The others are, and we all know it,
over-walkers. Come on, move along.
(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. 
