In the rooms they looked under the bed, then they looked in the cupboards, under the armchairs, they even turned the carpet over, so they wouldn't miss a thing, then they searched the hall and behind the paintings they didn't find anything, then they moved to the kitchen and opened all the drawers, took all the cutlery out of the drawers, moved all the cups, even looked in the oven, disappointed they finally went out on the balcony and dug at the roots of all the plants. Until the night came they searched and searched; and even to this day they didn't remember where they put me.
(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. 
