Veveriță was a nuisance who, being stupid, luckily, he was, could have riled an ordinary magician, as well as Houdini, thanks to the dumb luck given by his wife's red pants, which he wore inside out and only washed in the 13
th month of the year. On the front of the pants there was a shamrock. Not a print, the real plant, along with the bush. His wife's bush, preserved after the quarterly epilation. He wanted to get tattooed with a 13, but only had enough money for a 12.5. But that way he kept telling himself that luck was near, around the corner. That's why he would loaf around.
(Translated by Ecaterina Bucovanu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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. 
