Let me read some more,said the writer from above the dirty tablecloth and empty pints. Read some more, but get another round, the table is weeping, replied the writer's great admirer. The pints came withtwo-finger wide white collars, just in time for a new read. The admirer rescues a fly that got stranded in the cold foam with his dirty finger and drinks it thirstily: you mean you're writing a novel? The writer is aghast: no, dude, it's short, ultra-short prose, the queen of literature. Aha, marvels the admirer, ready to admire at another table too.
(Translated by Raluca Ioana Crucerescu / 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. 
