You know, I never go back to where I left off, because if I was taken the first time, it was clear to him that I would keep doing that. And no, if I still come back, I forget what I said and I'll do my job. In fact, I never left here. I wanted to, but I didn't do it so I wouldn't come back. And all my life I've been afraid of that. I grew old and didn't know if I was better elsewhere. Even these fallen leaves return in the spring. Maybe it's time to go. You know, if I come back, forget everything I said.
(Translated by Bianca Dumitru / 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 November 2021, the group has 7.500 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, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
