A persimmon and a kiwi, two friends thick as pulp, escaped the store and were rolling happily down the street. We are the juiciest and the hairiest in this town, they sang. We are the Very best, like our Vitamins. What's up with you two, proud as peacocks? yelled out some mulberries who catapulted themselves into the air, but heavy as they were, they smashed into the ground, leaving nothing but their stems in a moist puddle. The exotic ones stared in disbelief at the way their competitors turned into jam and decided to go back to the shelf. And get a Bucharest ID.
(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. 
