All the knights tried to ingratiate themselves to her, by various methods: with date invitations, plush little hearts, messages in fortune pies, romantic nights, dream vacations. They got bored and formed an assembly in which they began to plan new strategies. Every Sunday they voted for a representative and a tactic. In the evening they still returned with their tails between their legs. What they didn't know was that her heart was already stolen. By the most stupid person in the village. The one who didn't have anything. And on top of that, he was also mute.
(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. 
