It would've been much easier if it were an island. I could've blamed saints and gods, my weak arms, the shallow tide, the flimsy raft, the waves that keep pushing me back, the wind that's not blowing hard enough, the bottle with my S.O.S. note that got lost in the belly of the ocean. Or I could've remembered Robinson or Tom, I could've taught Friday everything I know and could've had splendid anthropological revelations before the cannibals devoured me. But you always give me the hardest tasks, Admin.
(Translated by Carla Bețianu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / 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. 
