It's kind of dark in my basement, said the little mouse as he wove the osier. He stroked his whiskers with a paw then slid it to his ear, straightening his fluff. I'm going to make a ladder outof sticks, leanit against the moon, and picksome of the bigger stars. They are perfect to be hung around here. All set. Hewaited for the night to come and went star picking. He stuffed five plump stars in his pockets and glided down the slide-like ladder that connected the sky to the hazel wood. What a blessing. As night fell, sohis home lit up. But more so did his wife's heart.
(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. 
