I arrive home in a hurry and excited. I open the box - it was exactly the book I was waiting for. I read more than 60 pages in one go, but I stop. I shouldn't hurry like that. If I read it all today, what am I going to do tomorrow? I put it aside. I open a chocolate, eat a little and I like it, but I put it aside in order to save some for later. I put it next to an almost finished puzzle, on top of which is also placed a cup of coffee with around two inches left. There are only things that I would like to finish around, but not now.
(Translated by Claudia Alexandra Văcărescu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / 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 January 2021, the group has 3.000 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale. 
