The child is playing by himself in the courtyard. He is gathering stones of various sizes and starts building a fortress. He picks up grass blades and throws them inside the walls. He adds some dandelions as well. He is making the mother, the father and the child, who is himself, out of twigs. He places them all around a table made out of a piece of wood. During this time, a plane is bombarding their village. The child is humming a melody, putting the toys inside his shirt and tells them: Let's bring you inside the house, can't you hear the thunders? The rain is coming.
(Translated by Bianca-Andreea Rîmboacă / 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. 
