On a day that began with cracks in the sky and colorful shadows, The Rabbit met The Tiger at the hipster bar in the woods. The Horse was at the bar, expert in alcohol-free horseshoes and fancy mushrooms with solar plexus explosions. \'What can I get you dear friends, neigh uh uh?' 'Two horseshoes', but he didn't get to finish the sentence because shrapnel of fire came from behind and they could hear the Dragon: 'They should at least be flambéed.' The snake who had just arrived hissed virulently: 'You burned me, may my Monkey die if I'm lying to you.' Ashamed, the Dragon throws up a Goat and a Boar. Debauchery.
(Translated by Andreea-Daniela Vasilache / 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. 
