A big man holds a small human in his arms. In the hands of the big man, the pencil dances on the white sheet, led by the leprechaun's voice with his chin pressed to the table. The eyes, the mouth, the nose, the voice can be heard like a silver bell, and from the animated drawing smiles sharply, like in a mirror, another leprechaun. Then, the big man's hand gently places the pencil in the little human's hand, which he gently grasps in the palm of his hand and begins to lead it further and further through the wide world, which is, since then, only a page written by a grandfather.
(Translated by Oana Georgiana Minea / 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. 
