At the palace of the Eastern king there was a dispensation for wooing. The first arrived at dawn and left also at the same time. No one could make the heart of the princess to flutter. Not even the one from the south, a well-known
influencer, nor others less famous. Only one of them, from further west, who dismounted at the palace in the evening, was given a fleeting sniff of the odalisque's thrill. That night the stars forgot to twinkle, so ignited the two of them did not sleep, and at dawn the blow was a theatrical one. The prince was gone and the horse remained.
(Translated by Tania Diniță / 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. 
