After a love story submerged at the end of my student days, I sailed for almost thirty years in troubled waters, among islands, bays, peninsulas, fjords, and I built, demolished, worked, and I took care of the wives and families who took me in as much as it could be done. One day, without any sign, I ended up in an empty studio flat with all my dowry as big as an SUV trunk. When I opened the door, my great love was waiting for me inside for whom I did not have the courage to even dream about for
twenty-six years. The S.O.S. of the soul has worked out.
(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. 
