I knew she had been there for some time, but I did not have the courage to look under the bed until I heard her snore. Then, I mustered up my courage and I shone a blinding ray of light directly into her eyes. She blinked, half-asleep, still snoring. I named her Pink and asked her tolie next to me in bed. She said it was not the proper thing to do, so I went under the bed myself and we played there. She grew up alongside me until we no longer fitted under the bed and then, one night, she disappeared. I found her under my daughter's bed; next to her, a little Pink looked at me with curious eyes.
(Translated by Valentina Mihai / 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. 
