God, let no man live the life of the lumberjack, he sang all day long, he would have sworn he sang in his sleep too. He would have asked his wife, had he been married, if she had heard him sing last night. He couldn't remember, but he might as well have sung when the log struck him, his forelimbs cracked like splinters under his boot. He'll sing to God at the Judgment and ask for new feet. No, he had better make him a sky with nightingales, to catch angels with the pickaxe and send them rolling over on earth .
(Translated by Andreea-Daniela Vasilache / 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. 
