His eyes are blue, accentuated by large round frames. Is it haunted? What do you think? I hired Midge to research the history of Carlotta, the deceased owner of the old house we bought. I keep dreaming of Carlotta sprinkling sand in my eyes, and I wake up with bloody eyelids. I sleep as if I'm in a castle with towers patrolled by beheaded queens with rattling chains, not as if I'm in a house downtown with electricity and heat. Sit down, Midge whispered, while wiping a grain of sand from her cup of beer.
(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. 
