Natalița, the captain of a passage boat, had a door to the attic and windows to the bed. Why do I say that? Because she used to bring nuts up in the attic with the fork. You can't have your cake and eat it too, she had a saying.That is, until her appetite got the better of her and she lowered the coltsfootfrom the attic, the floors covered with carpets embroidered with Podolian ornaments. The podzol from her attic was from the plateau full of podophyllum, where Natalița lived. I couldn't resist any longer and I brought the hammer down and left her. Well, not before drinking wine from the vineyard.
(Translated by Andreea Ciubuc / 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. 
