He had eaten kiwi and since then everything has been going upside down. When he got out of bed, he realized he was not in bed, but on the ceiling, like a huge caterpillar that had stuck its fat, striped its body out of the clinging slime, just like his red-white-and-blue striped pyjama's, so that as he twisted himself out of the hardened slime he began to look like a spiral lollipop. In his fall he tried in vain to cling to the chandelier and ended up with it in his arms, toppled over backwards on the floor from where he observed his dozens of hairy little legs.
(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. 
