I don't know how the fate of a village can change, but that of Uroi was strongly marked by the news that a film will be shot here in Măgura. Half a year of Never-before-seen and Never-before-tried followed. As children, we were crowded on the bridge over the Mureș every day, to be the first to meet the approaching stud, led by an Amazon woman on horseback wearing a green velvet suit and high-heeled boots. And at the end, the robust figure of my neighbor Leli, carrying in her hand the magical round, metallic box with the film rolls, coming towards the dormitory: today we are seeing Burebista.
(Translated by Andreea Laura Stanca / 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. 
