Everything is okay. In fact, it's simpler. It's all in the first rule. The algorithm of happiness. The string of love. The matrix of wisdom. The formula for success. The first rule is a serene axiom, everyone takes it for granted. The first rule quantifies good. Rule two is diametrically opposed. The algorithm of despair. The string of despair. The disease matrix. The formula of death. The second rule is a dark axiom. And when you think you understand, that it's a balance, the third rule comes and nobody knows it and, what a surprise, you fuck everything.
(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. 
