We are in the full swing of a worldwide food crisis. The shops are empty, people are dying of hunger and cannibalism is blooming. Still, we have a reason to be happy today. It's been two years since the settlement of the pandemic and a year since the neighbours' war has ended. We thought of celebrating the event with a luxurious and opulent dinner. Our neighbour, the butcher, lent us a beautiful cattle bone. We gave him a Doxa watch in return. We kinda tricked the neighbour: before we gave him back the bone, we drew out all its marrow.
(Translated by Carla Bețianu / 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 May 2022, the group has 8,350 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. 
