Everything vanishes in the end. You're like snakes, eating your own tail, programmed to press the red button. Shitty people. That's what the mantis said while passionately devouring the male's head. The kids looked at her frightened, not understanding what was going on. Mommy, but who'll take us to the lake if daddy is gone? Silence! I may eat you too, brats! And she continued her feast without a care. Mommy, mommy... but it was too late. The mantises' head snapped under the grieving farmer's shaft.
(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. 
