The battle to save the planet is about to end. All the heroes mustered their powers to give the monsters the final blow. Suddenly, the action freezes on the screen and an authoritative voice is heard: Break. So I am Mr. Tupelman, okay? I brought you to my castle to make ourselves a new club. Batman, Ironman, Captain America,
Spider-Man, Hulk, you will be the first members. But don't let anyone know. It's a seclet. Come on, add some candies and calamels. And if you don't follow the rules, I will kick you out of the gloup.
(Translated by Ecaterina Bucovanu / 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. 
