27.01.2022
Once upon a time there were golden fruitful plains that fed millions of hungry mouths, huge silver forests that made your blood turn to birch sap when you walked through them, mountains as gray as my hair that carried gold on their backs for blacksmiths, beautiful flowing waters filled with fish and lakes with stories. So you know, said the old woman. If tomorrow I do not wake up, do not forget, even if your eyes no longer see and your ears no longer hear, your heart listens. A country-song of longing.

(Translated by Denisa Dărăban / 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.

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