It's pouring outside. You're walking aimlessly through the empty streets, in the sweet-and-sour scent of the blossomed cherry plums. You're passing by a house whose window is crammed with two teddy bears. Huge teddy bears. From the middle of their fluffy embrace, the world is but a naïve drawing. A drawing in which a toothless sunwith zigzag rays is smiling from the corner. The sun's standing above a house with a single wall, a single door and a single window - all watched by a girl - a triangle with a circle above, with her stick hands stretched out for a who knows which dream, beyond her reach.
(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. 
