16.01.2022
Tell me the password. What password? The password. How do you think you get into Heaven? When they sent me here, they didn't tell me any password. Who are you? I don't see your name on the list. Today I have 20 persons, and I don't recognize your face. Dorel. That's it, I found your name. You hurried like a virgin who wants to get married. You, Death, what the hell did you do? You messed up left and right again. I told you left, because you have a scythe in your left hand. Oh, now I see it's the other left. Let me work it out. You, Dorel, once he says To be or not to be, take a step to the left so that the spotlight doesn't fall on your head.

(Translated by Anca Cristina Ilie / 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.

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