Tilt your white Panama hat towards the back of your head, take out your handkerchief and wipe your sweaty forehead. He tries to look at his watch, but then remembers he left it in pledge to the gypsies. Let the noon always be as big as the sun rises in the sky. He stops at a row of manor houses. The shady trees give an otherworldly chill. He waves his hat to cool himself. A millet beer peddler emerges from the right. Another pushes the ice cream cart to the left. The three of them stand in the shade. I could use a golden-yellow beer with two-fingers thick foam on top.
(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. 
