Aspic, eggplant appetizer, pound cake? Ha, ha, ha. I don't know what are these. Since there is light outside and I stretch my arms to the sky with a slight crack wrists until night embraces me on all sides, I am not hungry. I am not thirsty. I don't know what are these. I don't have any special technique for this, I am not yoghin nor a Buddhist monk. I dig my feet into the ground and sit. That's it. My family secretes a substance that continuously feeds, so I can't eat too little or too much. Have you seen any fat tree?
(Translated by Iuliana Mocanu / 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 July 2022, the group has 8,750 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. 
