Come on, each to their own wall, shouted Maia, while placing a strawberry on her rosy skin. The ladybug tried crossing past her, to no avail. The child grabbed the magnifying glass and looked laughingly at what was going on. So tiny these bugs are, she whispered with wonder. But they have their own world. An ant was now climbing on her skin slightly reddened by the spring breeze. Look, it's a family, she exclaimed. You may get married on my tummy. She also threw them croissant crumbs. So did her days pass. Lounging on the grass, with a book and a magnifying glass.
(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. 
