Wearing a linen dress, I hop on one foot through the dust-filled street. Sit still or you'll mess up your sandals, says granny. Whatcha got there? I chopped up a chicken and made a pie for your auntie. Why doesn't auntie have any chickens? She doesn't, cause she's a lady. But she's got some finicky jam. Can't you tell her to give us some to bring home? The good kind that the colonel likes. My God, shut up, she might hear you talking like that. Why? Wasn't she bragging that the colonel brought it from overseas? Those were hairy, Chinese ones, granny, these are green, Romanian tomatoes.
(Translated by Bianca Ioana Prisecaru / 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. 
