Is it good? Yeah. Push the can over. See how pretty is in here? Just staying on the rocks and eating. If we didn\'t jump out of the window, we wouldn\'t have seen Toaca. But I did see it. Where? A while ago. But it was different. I climbed on the church tower to see it. I slipped or I don\'t know. When I woke up, I was in the hospital and my head was full of curlers. They didn\'t let me leave so I ran. They caught me and moved me to 5. There I got this bracelet and you beside me. You know, that day I found out what patient means. What does it mean? It hurts.
(Translated by Andreea Denisa Dinu / 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. 
