Father Agheasmie took the wooden spoon and shoved in the potato stew bowl. He chewed, eagerly looking for a piece of meat. Don't rummage through the stew, his wife said. We're still in the holy Lenten fast, have you forgotten? He sighed heavily. You're not eating bread today, she continued. You're on a diet! Stay here at the table and let me put you the food on the bowl. The priest swallowed it while sighing. There was once upon a time, he murmured.
(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. 
