The sun had set. The serenity of a spring night had fallen over the country house. The old woman sat down comfortably on the settle. Her granddaughter was cleaning tirelessly. What month is it, my dear? It's Goes-By-Fast, she shouted, so her grandma would hear her. That's right, very well said. We've just been in Came and Went. We have to sow the crops before It's Going to Rain. We'll sow, grandma, but you have to let us handle it now. How will you do it if you don't know the gist of things? You must rest, you are no longer young. There once was never as ever.
(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. 
