How proud I was, they set up the awards ceremony beneath me and thousands of wreaths touched me. Those who played leapfrog could rely on me, and I've endured countless times getting hit by a ball in tennis or football. I acted as a screen for those who kissed and I understood their need to scribble on my skin, because they were writing about love. Today I'm flustered and shaken by some ugly words but most of all the word bulldozer, heard from the people who want a new school, scares me. But they don't see how wings burst out from the swallow nests glued to me.
(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. 
