Miri escaped happily from the crowded and obscured boot, from the lack of light. Attracted by the smell of crumbs, he stopped in the kitchen. He got cozy into the green bean bowl, where he felt like home. There nobody was snoring, but we all know that the beans are civilised. A fork started to move in the bowl, after a salty rain woke him up suddenly. Frightened, he jumped directly into the hot stove. With all of his feet burned, landed in the pot. The lady tasted, and said that it tastes like raw socks, put more salt and covered the pot.
(Translated by Maria Cătălina Moisescu / 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. 
