Much is said about the emotional intelligence of men. But. From the door, she goes: If you brought fish, whoever had the pleasure of catching them, should have the pleasure of cleaning them too. I watch him curiously as he tactically unbuckles the strap from the buckle and the knot of the green backpack string and begins to take things out. I've picked mushrooms, I'll prepare them. If you cook them with a fuss, they become poisonous. He winks at me. Here's a hat, because you're out of appendages, and he hands me the sunflower hat full of seeds. I didn't pick any flowers, it was dark.
(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. 
