Around the fire, the hunters talk about the battle with the rival tribe. Let's attack them first, yelled one of them. Let's attack them at night, we'll slaughter them, said another, waving his tomahawk over his head. We must do something, or they will come and kill us, and our children, property and even our squaws will be theirs. What do you think, our elder, what is your advice? said the chief, looking at the wrinkled face of an Indian seated beside him. My advice is to build a bridge, not raise the 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. 
