Yes, Aunt Nela, are you coming again with the radio gossip and the news without three confirmed sources? Gal, will you leave me the hell alone with these ideas? I swear on my eyes that have seen so many things that are unknown to others. And if I think about it, I am the third source that confirms that the two others on no way can be. I went to calm the animals, early in the morning, because they groaned like hell, and when to pull the hay bale from the head, "hop" like this, I found: an earring and some fine panties that even Jița never had at the store. Gal, who would be the rich one in our village?
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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. 
