I had arrived at the destination. I jumped from the plane with an airdrop and while I was approaching the ground, I realised I got the wrong address. Under me, there was a peninsula but not an island as it must have been. It was too late to return to the plane so I landed on the beach. I hid my airdrop in the sand. I had with me the survival kit so I didn't worry about anything. I became suspicious only when there appeared the first dinosaur from the forest. Then, there were the rest of the prehistoric animals and after them, there came cannibals.
(Translated by Teodora Stoian / 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.