Repeat after me: take it to the dumpster. Take it to the dumpst-uh. Child, when are you going to learn to pronounce the letter
r? You're a big boy now, you're four years old. That's not twue. I'm thwee, not fou-uh. Actually, you're four and three days. See? I'm thwee. Yes, sweetheart, you're three days past four years. Okay, mommy, of couwse you know bett-uh.You'we such a gweat teach-uh. My favouwite teach-uh. Let's begin the ewocution wesson. Fine, let's begin. Repeat after me: supercalifragilistic. Sup-uh-cawifwagiwistic. Oh, that's too complicated. Let's try something easier: red lorry yellow lorry red lorry yellow lorry.
(Translated by Oana Ionescu / 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. 
