We know that the wolf ate the little goats and placed their heads at the window. The author doesn't tell us what happened to the heads afterwards. He also doesn't tell us with what kind of meat were the cabbage rolls prepared. Or maybe the wolf became a vegetarian? The reader's got a mystery to solve, the reader is compelled to think. We shall remove the text from the curriculum. Humans are not meant to think, because God knows what kind of ideas they'll be getting. And who's still reading what was written more than a hundred years ago? Let's vote and finish the meeting, I have to take the kids to the mall.
(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. 
