I often walk down that street without looking around. The old houses, with boards boarded up windows, made my stomach churn. But that day I stopped in front of the little house that looked like something out of a fairy tale. White, with White, with walls glistening with cubic sugar and embroidered fabrics in the windows. On the windowsill, in a row, fine porcelain with puppies. One pawed energetically, another admired the art. I approach and the door opens. As I enter, a hand pulls me back: don't come in, says Crazy Ben, this is the witch's house that's been eaten by her dogs.
(Translated by Cristina-Nicoleta Costache (Mircea) / 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. 
