It was a warm night and I couldn't sleep. I went out into the yard and lit a cigarette. Suddenly, I heard a deafening roar and a bright light blinded me for a couple of seconds. Slowly, my eyes got used to the light and I managed to see a gray figure heading towards me. I froze in fear. I tried to scream, but I couldn't articulate any sound. Sandu, give me a fire and stop staring like an idiot. My tractor brakes are broken again. Come on dude, don't be upset, I'm coming tomorrow to fix your fence.
(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. 
