I am scheduled for rejuvenation treatment. Expensive, but worth it. My eyesight weakened, but I didn't give up. Not yet and not now that
Real Fiction has conquered the world. It's fantastic. But like everywhere, there is friction here too. I help as much as I can. I even joined the Nostalgic Tribe. Florin Piersic Jr. fights for continuity. But the waters are murky. Some ask for change. They are said to have grouped into the New Times Clan. That is, without rules, without imposed themes, the sign of free exclamation. We are dismayed. Where will we end up like this?
(Translated by Emilia-Georgiana Călinescu / 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. 
