A for animal. Atrocious and acerbic, an acid aggressor, acrid and alienated, annoying and avaricious, I adhere allusively and altercate aleatorically to another, absurdly alive. Arrogant, yes. Amusing, no. I stir the waters abjectly. I'm like a pineapple in soup. I have words as sharp as knives. I'm a white tooth decay. Abject to the bone. C for cretin. A characterless, carcinomatous caricature, poisonous climbing shrub. I know opulent words, I juggle them and I allocate myself the luxury of maintaining my internet presence with them.
(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. 
