Mummy, last night there was someone under my bed. I think he showed up right after dad came back from work. There was no one there, sweetheart. Yes, there was. I think it was the bogeyman. I heard him snore. I think he also farted. Sweetheart, it was just a dream. There are no monsters in our house, they only exist in stories. Now go and kiss daddy goodbye before he leaves for work. The child hugged his dad on the doorstep and then went backinto his room. Just then, their neighbour Ghiță came out from under the bed. What are you doing here, uncle? Well, I have fixed your bed, son.
(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. 
