He had a cute pair of dinosaur pyjamas, which he proudly worn over his blue fur. He opened a storybook and while he was trying to focus on reading, his third eye kept lingering on the coloured illustrations.Confused, he scratched himself between his little horns, but he had already made up his mind. Tonight, reading was simply not for him. He put the storybook on the bedside table and while doing this he noticed a movement so subtle next to the bed that he almost thought he had imagined it. He leaned over slightly, lifting the bed sheet. Mommy, a human.
(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. 
