It is so good here. I think this is how the heaven looks like. It is enough to blink and when I open my eyes I notice that every wish that crosses my mind becomes reality. Delicacies, beverage, gems, anything. I can even change the landscapes and the seasons as I please. Shambala, Nirvana, screw it, everything is possible. I am master of the universe. Suddenly I feel a wave of hot air. I hear a voice: Get up, you'll collapse with sunstroke. What the hell? Where am I? The Istrian Peninsula. Croatia. And with the wishes fulfilled? Hell no.
(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. 
