You know how she grabs your finger in her little hand and drags you through the grass, fearfully, because the grass is almost as tall as she is, and a ray of sunshine catches yellow dandelions on her dress in such a way that you want to hold onto this moment as much as you can, but she gets confident enough to start running until you can only hear her laughing with joy, suddenly cut off by the noon's silence and her voice becoming serious, look what I found, mommy, and now she holds in her hand, still little, a bruised finger, cut down the middle, on which the blood was barely dried?
(Translated by Tania Diniță / 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. 
