Ambulance, firefighter, police and a sea of onlookers were everywhere. On the 5th floor a girl in a white veil threatens to kill herself. She didn't actually say anything; she just stood on the windowsill and leaned out dangerously. Then the bird landed next to the girl. Some said it was a smaller stork, others that it was a large seagull. When the girl let herself fall, the crane disappeared too. Behind them stood a man with his elbows on the windowsill. Below, a young man in a faded jacket murmurs into his beard: TIFF, bro.
(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. 
