Lunchtime. In the campus, there was a swarm of students. Paradoxically, only John was carrying an umbrella. He decided to head into the crowd that was coming from the opposite side, so the others would have to go around him. Here's an uncomfortable situation, he thought as he walked with his umbrella open. People are bumping into me, I am delaying them, they are getting annoyed. Not after long I will be reprimanded and slammed to the ground. I could even die, he said towards the umbrella. It seemed to agree. Since they were in agreement, he crossed the street restoring the Nash equilibrium.
(Translated by Jessica-Polixenia-Cristiana Copilaș / 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 May 2023, the group has 11,260 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. 
