I am the feeling of a dog's tail wagging for joy, I am the stardust you made your ashtray from, the wind chase and the free butterfly, that little bird with beady eyes that dies locked in its cage, the smell of pie you can never get enough of, that high note, that soaks up the sky and gives you goose bumps, the housewife cooking naked in nothing but a tiny red apron, the hot coffee sipped on a cold curb. But you don't like pies and you smoke too much.
(Translated by Lorina Xiaoyu Hou / 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. 
