Apolodor from Labrador took care of the motor, Jan from Yucatan was El Capitan, and Yani from Sinai would make the mainsail fly. Only Ari from Arabica, Tol from Anatolia and Ove from Scandinavia knew it all about the navy. As soon as they set to sea, they got beached like one, two, three. And because the Balkan Lic wasn't getting scared too quick, he found rescue for his friends over there where the sea ends. Through the wilderness they went, all that's known of this event. Because their own place they knew, and they knew the fortune, too - when you're taken off the helm, you're bound to find a new realm.
(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. 
