Aleeex's mother, are you letting Alex out in front of the block? An hour or two. We promise we won't stay long. Maria, Andreea and Mihai are also with us. And Andreea brought a beautiful new ball and we want to play a little with it. We promise we won't run after her if we throw her in the street. And can you give Alex 5 lei? That after we go to the store to get ice cream and lollipops. Yes,
we'll be careful not to harm our teeth. Yes, we are coming for lunch. My mom gave me a salami sandwich, so I'm not coming to you.
(Translated by Alexandra Cica / 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. 
