Come on, quickly, hide in the hollow of that apple tree, so they don't see you. Mammon, I'm begging you, keep that forked tongue of yours inside your mouth and stop grinning like that. Asmodeus, don't bite him. I know you're craving it, but restrain yourself. What? I haven't told them about you yet, Levi. Yes, of course I care about you. There, there, little Satan, don't cry. I promise I'll tell them. Just hide for now. Luci, I beg of you, as the older brother, tell them as well, otherwise Petrică and Mișa will catch us and my Father will send me once again with the Armageddon to those poor people.
(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. 
