She had to wake up and arrive at the hospital at six in the morning to donate blood for him. A message arrived on her phone saying that it was no longer needed. That night she stayed home and read from
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, imagining that she was beside him. The next day they met and she told him the dream. Her father was upset that everyone thought him dead, when he wasn't. She led him until he could continue on his own. But I still doubt he was alone.
(Translated by Andreea-Simona Trufin / 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 February 2021, the group has 4.300 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. 
