Sanda, did you see that boy? I started at dawn to nail Godfather Florea's shoes, because it's his birthday today, on Palm Sunday. And this little guy wakes up, gives me a look and then leaves. Well, obviously, you didn't think you were emotionally destroying him with your autistic old communist cobbler stereotypes. You didn't see that he had a spectrum disorder, you, with all your rantings. Woman, where did you hear those words? You've only done two years of school. I heard them in a dream, Gheorghe. Take notice that the boy's in the field, near the cemetery, in the sunflower.
(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. 
