She sneaked into the garden without waking her parents and headed for the swing. Nothing pleased her more than listening to the sounds of the night coming from the woods and gazing at the sky until she fell asleep. She wasn't allowed to roam at night. However, that's all she thought about at the time. So she grabbed a flashlight from the shed and took her first steps. One, two, three she counted in her head; that was when she spotted the deer. In the moonlight, it looked like a god. So magical, yet so real. The next day, she wrote her first essay about forest conservation.
(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. 
