I was relaxing, lounging on the sunbed in the backyard. It was a perfect afternoon, the sunlight was playing joyfully through the cherry trees, their leaves gently shivering. The sparrows were wandering while cheerfully singing and the breeze was fondling my cheeks. A small blue creature caught my attention, it was slowly climbing a burdock leaf. I probably disturbed it when I drew near to study it because it snarled very irritated: What are you looking at, man? You've never seen a caterpillar in rompers?
(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. 
