Once, there was a terrible drought. The archers of the Terrible Gigel climbed the Mountain of Pain Caused by the Absence of Rain, fired all their arrows from the mutant hedgehogs and wounded the Sun-Emperor. He thought it was acupuncture. His yellow dye has run to the ground and colored some taller weeds with some sort of UV hats. From that day on, those weeds were called sunflowers. Immediately after that little accident, it supposedly rained buckets, but that stuff never cleaned up.
(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. 
