I decided to start the enlargement of the cellar not on Monday, because it was a still a holiday, but on Tuesday. I dug, I went out for lunch in the afternoon. When I got back, the light bulb refused to work, I had to twist it in the socket, It's the humidity, I said and started digging again. The next day I wanted to carry the sand and the carrots downstairs. The lightbulb had broken. I replaced it, vexed and I promised it to myself that I wouldn't forget to take my pills anymore. Today I went down again, the light bulb was working, but the carrots were gone. In the newly dug wall another hole had appeared.
(Translated by Claudia Cioplea / 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. 
