Wednesday was over, the team was saying goodbye to the locals. Among them, the three little brothers with the roundest green eyes sat sadly huddled together. They were going back to their poor village where they would tell how they had been made up to be monsters and had their eyes sliced and filled with vines, how they had been given chocolate and fruit and money. Chivulescu's name will be cut off from the debtors, but their parents will wait another Sunday to get drunk and another day will come to take them out to produce again.
(Translated by Alina-Dorina Nicolae / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / 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. 
