Once upon a time, I too was a Sunflower out of the healthy earth with a green light-body. A golden crown was my hair when I bloomed and my eyes were silky dark. I was a decorative flower, not well grounded but absorbing all that would help me fly. The bumblebees gave me their knowledge and I had fruit. I revelled it while melting under the warmth of my darling's gaze. I was. The fruit's almost ripe. I'm grey now, my head is tilted to the sunset, and my ear to what comes and tramples everything. I will be compost to the Earth.
(Translated by Cătălina Colibaba / 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. 
