I don't know how others are not, but I know how I am not. Here at us in Sarmisegetusa we are tough Dacians and we have dismounted from the stork after riding it like the dragon from our ancestors.More like elders, because we don't have ancestors, but we become them. No, now there's a smart one with wrinkled eyes, who looks as if he drank liquor all the way from the south, with a hairy green potato. It didn't work to make wedges or chips out of them. We barter with the Romans who said they'd come by my home to merge our nations.
(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. 
