The little girl grabbed the rainbow's escalator and climbed above the small city like a fly and the clouds like blueberry foam, until her head hit the sky. She opened the hatch, got down on one knee and climbed up. What a lot of water here, someone left the tap on, she chuckled, trying not to get his socks wet. And he turned it off. Suddenly the water disappeared and the sky turned misty. A fish appeared out of nowhere scolded her. This is no place to play, we must keep the sky azure until the evening appears, the bird with wings as big as the horizon. And beckoned her to listen.
(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / 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 June 2022, the group has 8,500 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. 
