He had escaped childhood, believing that life would give him an easy part. 20 years, an empty role. Then he had the flash of his life. The clock forced him to hurry. One love, one more, one more, one more. He hurried into all of them and failed in each one of them. Broken parts. When he last opened the theater door, he found himself in the street. He had forgotten all the lines, the stage was closed. Backstage, things had been arranged without him. His
make-up flowed with tears and the rain wiped it off. He had always been in a hurry, the actor.
(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. 
