She awoke in the middle of the night to find two green eyes staring at her - sharp lasers. That's it, they came. Paralyzed with fear, she felt something wet and warm tickling her and touching her face. Yuck, now they're going to sting me too, I know it, it happens, it paralyses me, right. And yes, she felt the soft prick of fine needles on her neck. Phew, damn, now they're getting me out of bed and going to the base. But that rough tongue on her cheek was giving her doubts. Oh, you rabid, hungry cat, you've got me in the gutter. I'm coming now to fed you.
(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / 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. 
