Mr Qi-Wee, you came all the way from China to Sibiu to become a shepherd. Yes. Shuperd. How did the villagers greet you? They welcomed me well, lots of liquor, cheese, baptized Baptist. Extraordinary. Yes. Gave me the name of Badea Kiwi. How nice. You're practically Romanian now. Yes. Roumun. But, Bade, I see you only have one sheep. Yes. Single sheep. And you're afraid of the wolf? I see you have a lot of dogs to guard her. No, I don't. Sheep alone with no wolf. Dog ran away, attacked, fought. Dog grown fat, strong and made for export to China.
(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. 
