Her papa had told her that granny is old and she will die. That she will leave them for a while and she will climb up to heaven where she will obediently wait for them, knitting wool socks near the floor lamp. She cried her heart out for granny but even more she wondered why granny did not climb up to heaven. She lied on the table for 3 days, then they put her in a wooden box and buried her. She took an umbrella to the graveyard and left it near the cross. She saw in Mary Poppins that that was the way women climbed up to heaven. The next day the graveyard was full of umbrellas.
(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. 
