Fly me one time, said little Claire to Superman, after he had saved the little kitty from the tree. I want to see that cloud closer, look how fluffy and colourful. I am sure that there is the place where cotton candy is made. And I want to break a piece from it for Johnny whose celebrating his fifth birthday today. You know that he lost two teeth? Ok cutie but it's the last flight, my mother is waiting for me to eat. You should come and eat with us. My mother makes the best pancakes. He didn't finish his sentence and it started raining.
(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. 
