Hanging from a ripped thread of the rainbow, they were dripping water from the sprinkler found in a last season coat, in order to maintain the optical illusion from which they were hanging. A big crowd gathered mindlessly under the bridge, in the improvised village from the crossroad, to see the mess of a square rainbow, in black and white shades; most likely crafted by a colorblind, distracted, but not at all dull minded, artist. The only thing missing was him, climbed up on the streetlamp. Now, at which end's base of the seven greys x2 of the arch was the treasure of the redhead?
(Translated by Mălina Ioana Butaru / 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 April 2023, the group has 11,000 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, Luchian Abel, and Vlad Mușat. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
