I am the result of the clandestine affair between a swift-footed rabbit and a restless and somewhat libertine monkey. My father had cut and run before I was born. Shortly afterwards, my mother had also abandoned me. I do not blame her. I've seen how fierce her chieftain can be. I was adopted by two geese living near the pond, good thing I like grass. At the census I declared myself from a different forest. Rabbit-eared monkeys had never been seen there. A raven scholar decided that I was a new species. I hope that one day they will officially acknowledge me.
(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. 
