This small, Voroneț blue window, with four eyelets and a jute bag curtain with large red peony flowers sewn by grandma, is the step to the world of the alley. Through the jute sack all the crossings are sifted and the people seem prettier and better. Very seldom do I put aside the veil. It enhances the mystery and makes it bride-like. Through this window I saw one winter morning that it had snowed beautifully overnight, a compact convoy of sunflowers, thread by thread, marching, carrying on their shoulders the coffin of someone who had not waited for spring.
(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. 
