You got weapons? Just for the soul, he pointed to the bookshelves, but swallowed his smile when the officer pointed a rifle at him. I don't. Why didn't you run? Run where? The whole world's here. We'll burn them, we don't have so many tables to shake. Ha ha, laughed the soldiers. Can I get you some vodka to warm you up? And while they were carrying the bottle around, he put the book with the new label: Special Military Operation and Peace by Tolstoy in the window. Signal for the Resistance to fire. The history books were already in the bunker. His life? One page.
(Translated by Andreea Grințescu / 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 April 2022, the group has 8,175 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. 
