Cheese, stork, scallop, foal. Well, well, well, I told you the day after that comes later. Don't rush like greased lightning. Oh, but you're staring, confused. Did you see that one when he was thrown into the spears? Cotizo, that's who I'm talking about. He ended up in Zalmoxe. And you were happy. How cool, you killed Decebal's son. Did you like the Joshua N'zare thing? Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachtani. You slaughtered lambs for Easter and pigs for Christmas. You killed them all. And Michael the Brave. And you want to be forgiven on the last day?
(Translated by Anca Maria Florea / 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. 
