One day, a man without an umbrella had an idea. When it began to rain, he stared at a tree, tired. Nine months later, a small leaf sprouted from his neck. The leaf blossomed, fed by the rain. After 9 months, a dragonfly sprouted from the leaf. The dragonfly began to fly, scattering swarms of colorful rays. When the rain began to fall, it stared at a mountain, tired. Nine months later, an idea sprouted from a wing. The idea flew up, up and settled on a cloud. Then it started to rain.
(Translated by Andreea Ciubuc / 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. 
