Listen. I have a big yard with a few trees. Just two days of rain and the grass is up to my waist. Lawn mower, gas, electricity, expensive stuff. And I got myself a goat, time saver. It ate the leaves off the hedge, the flowers, anything but the grass, plus it paws the ground threateningly whenever I go near it. That's not all. It sits for hours staring at the house's wall without blinking. It sees something there that I don't. I'm not going to sell it. There's so much mystery in what it does that I now sit for hours next to her staring at the wall and philosophizing.
(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. 
