The Moon says to the Sun: You're so hot baby, I feel myself falling in love and I tend to run away. Why, you babe, I won't burn you. Liar, the last time you said this you turned me into ember and I stayed in the dark the whole night. Not even the stars could recognize their Queen. You're exaggerating, playing reverse psychology, I won't run after you anymore. This summer I'm going to get used to loneliness. It's getting tiring having you escape through my sunshine every time. Fine, I'll let you burn me. Show-off.
(Translated by Bianca-Andreea Rîmboacă / 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 February 2023, the group has 10,500 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. 
