Ever since I was little, these idios have been gossiping about me. They say that I'm too little or that my dress isn't colourful. Ladybugs are my best friends. They drink the dew off me in the morning. They eat seeds all day long. Not even the lion's mouth itself has a biggermouth than them. I'm glad the sunny days are coming. They finally leave me alone. The morons are looking at the sun. I was born a daisy and they sunflowers but we have the same sap, the same stem, the same root. It's not the color that matters, but that's the best they can do.
(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. 
