Winter came the other day, with cold and snow. Yesterday appeared the fence made of sticks across the road. On one stick is written deceit, on another hypocrisy, and, on another, traditional family, of course, I don't like the fence. Today, labels have appeared. I say it is too much. I take my slingshot and throw a good word to Maia today, tomorrow a storybook for Ale, and the day after tomorrow a cake for Adi. Love for the fellow human beings, barefoot, shaking in the snow, with wide open eyes, what are you doing with me? I take it fast, put it in the slingshot and throw it over.
(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. 
