He removed the rebellious strand of hair which kept felling on his eyes, cleared his throat and spoke affected: from now on, I am your God. Every day you will have to do a good deed and we will meet here at sunset, at the tree house. Whoever does not prove worthy of the group will be excluded. Go and do the deeds. Mara looked at Matei with fear. Although they were brothers, since he was elected leader, his behaviour completely changed. She picked up Mirabelle, fed the ducks, swept the yard, while Matei rode his bicycle down the street, smiling superiorly at his disciples.
(Translated by Ioana Negrea / 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. 
