It glows. It certainly is valuable. And look into the distance, and see that it's all shining. So much wealth contained in a glance. I've never seen anything like it in my life. I think it's something unique that only rich people get. Now I feel abundance myself. Look over here too, it's full of little colored stones. I think they're gems. This immense brilliance makes me weep with joy. Said the barefoot child, wearing the trousers grandma patched for him, looking out to sea for the first time in his life.
(Translated by Lenuța Bejenaru / 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. 
