At the end of the day I take off my hunting clothes and go home. On Thursday I arrived too early, I snuggled in the pram but my legs were outside and a little girl shouted at me
What a big baby and scowled at me. I didn't get mad, above me was my mother's warm and silent gaze and I fell asleep. Today is Saturday and I stayed since last night in the middle of the family that is preparing quietly for a picnic. Dad checks the fishing rods, mom makes sandwiches, the little brothers run after a ball and I sit in a hammock and dream with my eyes open a story.
(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. 
