Floare, once I'll take you to a sacred place. What's sacred, Frusi? Holy? And what is holy? Something you won't be if you can't keep the secret. Aha, I promise. Culae's cliff has all the fruits in the world. I heard that there is Frusi's arch: an orchard with little plants from a variety. It's savage, as the human specie used to be. You are going to help me domesticate it, with fresh water and a fresh furrow of clay under the dig. It's bound to the sky with a big stick of vine. The Arch Semiramida, Frusi-Floare. Smiles.
(Translated by Maria Cătălina Moisescu / 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. 
