You will be born in Ardeal, in a family of faithful people says the angel in a grave tone, while showing me the film of my life. I'm flying to the village of the snake that bites its own tail. Magician Father miraculously disappeared. My mother, the hen with the golden chicken, taught me the way of milk. The neighbor witches hate bastards. Saints, dead people and altars, the passions of Solomon's grandfather. Grandma Steluța doesn't make pies. I took my revenge on fate on the night of St. Andrew, loving in the big chariot of the barn the dragon men with children's hearts.
(Translated by Ana Spînu / 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. 
