A long time ago, a terrible plague had broken out in the mouse kingdom from the attic. The Emperor tried to get rid of it, but it was in vain. His subjects were dying one by one. Eventually they found the cure. A beautiful flower, red as fire, stolen from the field mice. And, after countlessordeals, the brave Mouse Charming managed to bring an acre of flowers. There was muchrejoicing. They nibbled them petal by petal. Then they began to yell and dance folk dances. And then Macarena. No one warned them that the red poppy hasside effects.
(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. 
