They were moving slowly. The boy was tired and he wanted to be held. He was too heavy, and he could barely stand himself. He already decided to take the first break of the day. They sat on the abandoned building's stairs. They were probably the sole survivors in the area. They hadn't noticed anyone else in a few months. He opened up his backpack. A bottle of water, some biscuits, two cans and a knife. They shared a bit of the water and a biscuit. Then the man, groaning in pain, took out his right boot. He unfolded the dirty bandages. He got infected.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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. 
