I have martens. One night, I was watching TV. It was a shitty show, but what the fuckshould one do if there's nothing else to do? Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a suspicious movement. I turned my eyes and saw a beautiful marten, which was watching TV from the roof of the terrace, with its nose pressed against the glass. I guess it didn't like the show, becauseit wrinkled its nose and jumped off the roof. From the chases that can be heard at night, I think I have at least a couple. I'm glad -someoneneeds to have sex in this house.
(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. 
