Sheltered under the eaves, the little girl was hopping, trying to shield her legs from the torrents. The colorful wooden plane floating downhill made her forget about the rain. She jumped in the middle of the torrents, picked the plane up, turned it on all sidesand ran homecontentedly. She wiped it clean and threw it towards the ceiling. The plane spun in the air and crashed heavily onto the carpet. I'll teach you how to fly and you'll take the glasses to Grandma, she told it. She forgot them here and she can't see without them. She lives up there, she pointed to a cluster of stars.
(Translated by Andreea Teodorescu-Colciu / 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. 
