When she woke up and looked out the window, she was speechless. A high wall had appeared overnight, blocking access to the sea. She closed her eyes and opened them again, the stone monstrosity was still there. Her son appeared beside her, happy to see the seagulls on the beach, like every morning. Nothing. The inhuman howl he suddenly let out scared her. She tried to hold him in her arms, to calm him down, but he struggled furiously until he broke free and threw himself with incredible speed towards the wall, climbing it like a hunted animal.
(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. 
