I know I'm small but I'm radiant and I'm seeking play and nice words. When I see that some are swearing at others and they're looking for trouble, I put on my good wings, the freshly washed Sunday wings, I go up somewhere as high and as blue as possible and I shout out: Yooo. Very loud. Then I flutter my wings,
flutter-flutter, and I let myself slip in between and split them into two groups and make them shake their hands and hug each other. Right away. And they listen to me. It's true that Scorilo, my dog, casts a big shadow. But my small shadow matters too.
(Translated by Mălina Ioana Butaru / 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. 
