It's all about you, because you're the one who paint my cheeks red. You found me, merry, perched on the tallest tree in the park. After a few sips of Irish Cream, I should think so too! Who wouldn't have noticed me? A chatty curly-pate. I shouted loudly after you: Hey, handsome! Several guys turned around, but you had the courage to approach me. We watched the passers by and had fun at their expense. You hid among the leaves, and I searched for you, laughing. Hey, handsome, today it's about us. If I push you, hold on to the Moon.
(Translated by Lucia-Alexandra Brînaru-Mitrofan / 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. 
