From the barrel that served as prop for the daily show, the oracle pulled out a pickled leaf of sauerkraut. She examined the little swollen veins of the leaf, and in front of her blind eyes appeared her grandma's hands caressing a goat, so the petitioner found out that he was going to live a long but harsh life, that a kind of sick love will be emerge, and that we're closing at 4 pm today. The next client was rescheduled for the next Tuesday, even though it was only Friday today. The imaginative force of the oracle was worn out. The grandma had never had goats.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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 June 2023, the group has 11,430 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. 
