Vuzzzz, vuzzzz, that gate slid from left to right, up and down, miraculously appeared and disappeared. Anyone who has never seen a kid and his joy of pushing buttons may not know what I'm talking about, but I know how many times a door can be closed and opened before you close your eyes trying to take a deep breath as your hair grows white instant. It's hard, where else can you say that this was a special gate and this little one was in ecstasy. Christ, give Peter the remote and play in the garden, baby.
(Translated by Bianca Dumitru / 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 June 2021, the group has 6.650 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, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficţiuni Reale. 
