Granny, you got any kiwis? Granny doesn't know what that is. It's a green fruit with black seeds. How about papaya, or avocado? Granny doesn't have any, and hasn't heard of them either. But come over here. Come on up and grab a big, green one. Come on child, you won't fall. Put a foot on this here branch, your hands over there, and pull. Grab it properly, dearie. Now pull hard, like that. Stay there, and take a bite. It's fine, you can wash your hands after. It's good, dearie, I know it's good. I planted this apple tree when you were born. It grew under God's rain and grandpa's care.
(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. 
