Little flowers, little bells, little hearts, beautiful landscapes, the happiest couples in the world (even if, in between pictures, we put on our sunglasses to hide the black and blue skin around the eyes), photos from wonderful vacations in exotic locations (posted from the kitchen waiting for the cabbage rolls to boil), everything is wonderful. In reality, behind the wall, the little flowers have withered, the little bells have fallen silent, the little hearts are beating tediously, the landscapes are disappearing, the couples are breaking up, but we hide all this behind a beautifully painted wall.
(Translated by Andreea Teodorescu-Colciu / 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. 
