I slowly closed the door and looked on, surprised. The
green-carpeted corridor looked like meadow during early summer. Taking small steps, I made it to the stairs. I started to go down. Anyone seeing my dress gliding down the steps and the glimpse of my red velvet slippers appearing with every step would have thought I was some butterfly dancing in a poppy field. Above the last step I heard, as though in a dream: the queen never leaves the castle. Go back. No one has sought you out today. The sky of my eyes was full of stars beginning to fall.
(Translated by Cristina Fliter / 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 October 2021, the group has 7.275 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 Ficțiuni Reale. 
