The boat made of brightly colored cardboard trampled with its four legs and entered the other side, where the sky is an ocean of cotton candy and love is a lollipop. We got lost, a chocolate elf whispered into his ear and all of a sudden, a wave of marshmallow fell on them. He raised the Tic-Tac moon on the top of his scepter, pulling on a watermelon gum and asked the audience: What do you think, little ones, where are we? The crowd mumbled, the kids whispered. One of them, with his eyes clear as the remoteness, said: in the magic realm of happiness.
(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. 
