My mum's not a witch, the child screamed from down the asphalt where he had fallen, having been pushed by the boys who were bullying him each time he walked on their street. Dressed in his school uniform, his white shirt dirty, he looked like a penguin aimlessly trying to use his small flippers to get up. The boys kept shouting all sorts of bad words at him, but one of those got to him and, when they let him go, he went straight home, opened the door, saw the cluster of white lilac on the table and smiled, happy that he's a love child.
(Translated by Lucia-Alexandra Brînaru-Mitrofan / 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. 
