In the beginning I created the heavens and the earth. Then
Pre-Eva appeared. Nobody knew who she was as I didn't want anybody to know she had driven me crazy in love and overturned my creation. Kohl shadowed eyes and the body of a Levant queen only covered by tissue garments, silver garlands and stones of turquoise which have all left me defenseless into the primordial darkness. I could hardly awake from my sensual delirium. Let there be light and when light turned on, she had already vanished. Then the men in white uniforms appeared and said they would tie me to the bed if I kept screaming.
(Translated by Elena Florea / 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 March 2021, the group has 4.500 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. 
