Why do you look like you saw a ghost, Grigorina? It's me, Augustin's Iunica. Phew Iunica, I almost didn't recognize you. When did you come back? Barta's Fane told me that you are a great lady in Pitesti. What lady? I'm a country girl, not a city girl. Alright, I'll go downto the hill to Niculina. I'll stop by to talk more. You have no idea, but I'm glad you're back. Safta, I want to tell you something. Do you still know Iunica? The one who left for Pitesti ten years ago? Yes, that's right. She returned to the village. But what an air of a big lady she has, you feel like taking her by the hair, not something else.
(Translated by Ana-Maria Mușetescu / 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. 
