I imagined that we would eventually get to this subject. Being very close to the floor, the beds in the city did not scare me. But those in the countryside, oh, the countryside... A bewildered cat, a rebel little mouse, a potato bug, a cross spider. Yet the house snake was the champion. He would tick inside the wall, where I knew he had a hole. During the day he was asleep. I would place a small bowl of milk under the bed, the way grandma had taught me. At night he would slither across the room. I did not have the courage to go pee. One morning the cat brought his head in front of the bed. I was finally free.
(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. 
