Ever since it climbed up on me, I've lost sight in my left eye. They call it ivy. It sits on my eyelidwith leaves and attracts insects as well. Now that the mulberry trees are full of caterpillars, they also climb on me. I'd sneeze, I'd scratch myself, I'm dying to do it, but I can't. What annoys me the mostis the bugs coming from that weird building in the corner, where they go in normal and come out darting from wall to wall. These bipeds in particular stop and spray me with all kinds of grossness coming right out of them. Ugh, dad, why don't I have legs?
(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. 
