When his head plunged into the broth bowl, he was already dead, but because I didn't want to traumatize the kids, I called for an ambulance. They performed CPR for a long time, everyone was afraid to pronounce him dead. The house soon filled with onlookers. Such a resources waste for the security, protection and the well-being of quite the pig of the family. It was proven that the new kitchen maid had deep and obscure Chechen roots. Good thing the rest of us didn't eat broth, just soup, but rarely. Nobody asked about the mandrake stewed vegetables from the balcony.
(Translated by Georgiana Morozii / 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. 
