No one and nothing was ever under the bed. She leaned over and looked at the narrow space from corner to corner. She traced an x and a zero with her eyes,but she couldn't close anyone in.Her nights were quiet and lonely,till the end. She kept waiting for a few years, then she grew up. Hi, I'm Maria. Hi, Maria.What do you want to tell us today? I've never had a monster under my bed. Let's all hug Maria, she needs our support. That first day in the group solved her problem. From that night forward, the monster was always in his place.
(Translated by Raluca Ioana Crucerescu / 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. 
