The old man had entered the world of books altogether. He answered only with more or less famous quotes. A tradesman had given him an old but working tv set. He had now come to have a different kind of
audio-visual repartee. Watch out for the donkey, he said when someone came in. To stupid questions, he'd answer whatever. In a rare book search, he muttered I can, I'm a magician. When someone haggled over the price he called it iHumor. Hurry up, just one more word to say. In solitude, folklore treasure.
(Translated by Liliana Popescu / 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. 
