Get married my girl, because you will remain a spinster and our village will laugh. I will get married, father, I will get married, and she answered, babbling. Anica was hardworking girl; she took care of the household since her mother died, took care of the animals, swept and kneaded. She made the best bread in the village, then, in huge trays, she baked mouth-watering cheese pies. The whole house smelled of warm bread and pies. Yes, to marry, who to marry? The young boys, some of them were afraid of her, she was smart and hardworking, the others spent their lives at Ghiță's tavern.
(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. 
