Come on, you can do it. I know you can. You'll see, you will have tiny little leaves, stem, roots. At first they are fragile and then more and more daring. And when you burst in flowers, Lord, then I would like to be by your side. To see you, to smell you, to embrace you. Do you know that if I may embrace you, I won't let go of you. Well, I'm just saying, I can't possibly hurt you, not even after the end of the world, when none of us will still exist. Yes, you are I, after all this time, on this earth that we call home. Our earth home.
(Translated by Zahra Kazemi / 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. 
