The little sheep wants to jump the fence by spring. What did the author mean here? Well, we understand who the little sheep is, we don't have to give it a name. The fence is just it. And tree, you are my spring. Forgive me, my walnut. I am a vine. An ivy. And I'd like to strangle you with my sap. For you to swallow me all over and for me to swallow you whole. But no, I can't jump the fence. And I'll stick my fingernails in the ground like one last holy thing, and I'll stay to dry, under your hot, sweet, and shady leaf.
(Translated by Oana Georgiana Minea / 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. 
