Dafina Știrba, the old woman, was enticing her clients with the funniest cries. From outside the cinema, the hoarse voice of a Carpathian smoker echoed down the street: Come get seeds. Break the seeds in your teeth's to be good kids. Take this, it's salty, I have pumpkin and sunflower. How much is the flower cone? It's two for one dollar and one for nothing. Give me three. The old woman is pouring the seeds in his pocket. Come on, give the dollar. Well, I only wanted those for nothing. Damn it, you sneaky weasel, grinned Baba Dafina, exposing her gums.
(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. 
